[GRASS5] Re: [GRASSLIST:8545] Re: d.vect.thematic options with spaces

[Moritz Lennert]

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Michael Barton wrote:
> Moritz,
> 
> This makes sense. When I originally wrote the script, I was thinking of
> making the options understandable, and didn't really anticipate how much
> more complex and useful it would become. When I was porting it to a GIS
> Manager panel, I toyed with the idea of changing the options to single words
> but didn't at that point because it seems to have become very widely used
> and I didn't want to cause existing users a lot of grief.
> 
> I think it would be better to rename some of these options, but I'm not sure
> of the smoothest way to transition everyone to new single word names. Do any
> of you have experience with this?


What you could do is just check for two possible names, i.e. when you do

case "$GIS_OPT_themecalc" in

check for "standard deviation" and "std" (or another one word form).

If you do not mention the possibility of using space separated
options in the --help info and the man page, then sooner or later
people will stop using it, I guess (but legacy code could continue
to function).

Just an idea...

Moritz
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