[GRASS-dev] r.info -g

[Glynn Clements]

Martin Landa wrote:

> r.info module has a lot of flags [1] which print *given* information
> to stdout. From my point of view it would be better (maybe) to have
> only *one* flag for this purpose, e.g.
> 
>   -g   Print basic information in shell script style
> 
> What do you think about it? It should not break any scripts in CVS
> tree (maybe Add-ons?). Sure, it is not a good way -- to break backward
> compatibility... on the other hand, just adding new flag -g is not
> also nice solution.

We shouldn't remove existing flags, but an additional flag to print
all available information in a parsable format would be a useful
addition.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>