[GRASS5] features needed for 6.2

[Helena Mitasova]

There already is r.pack/r.unpack in grass wiki add ons written by Hamish
http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/twiki/bin/view/GRASS/GrassAddOns

maybe Hamish could submit it to CVS to make it easier for users to  
find it,

Helena

On Mar 30, 2006, at 5:27 AM, Radim Blazek wrote:

> On 3/30/06, Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>> Radim Blazek wrote:
>>> On 3/29/06, Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hamish wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Restructuring of the raster elements into a $MAPSET/raster/ dir  
>>>>> means a
>>>>> break to GRASS 7.0. It makes sense that this should happen in
>>>>> combination with and at the same time as a revamp of the raster  
>>>>> format
>>>>> itself. That way we only have to do the transition once.
>>>>
>>>> I disagree. Switching the raster directory layout is much  
>>>> simpler than
>>>> a new raster format. With the former, it's clear what needs to be
>>>> done; it's just a matter of doing it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, but what benefits can a new dir structure bring to users?
>>> The GRASS database should always be access through library
>>> or modules.
>>
>> This would mean that we need a module which allows the selective
>> extraction of maps in GRASS format (without going through v.*.ascii).
>
> Exactly - r.pack/r.unpack, v.pack/v.unpack
>
> Radim
>
>> Moritz
>>
>
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