[GRASS-dev] RFC: Module Option Parser

[Markus Neteler]

Glynn Clements wrote on 12/21/2006 06:50 PM:
> Brad Douglas wrote:
>
>   
>>> If most of the options only apply to a specific "mode", that suggests
>>> that each mode should be implemented as a separate module. If they
>>> share common code, make it a library.
>>>       
>> I disagree.  Currently there are about 150 raster and 65 vector modules.
>> The list is not shrinking and becoming a bit unwieldy.
>>     
>
> I don't see a problem with having a large number of modules.
>
>   
>From a user's perspective this can become very confusing.
I tried to introduce the "keywords" concept to make the user easier
navigate through the available algorithms, but didn't get much
feedback on this.


ls -l $HOME/grass63/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin | wc -l
321

plus scripts is already too much in my opinion.

Markus