[GRASSGUI] Re: [GRASS-dev] d.rast still noisy

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi Michael,

I agree, the warnings are feature and not a bug. We shoudl always
specify mapset, otherwise it could happen, that the user wilĺ operate
with other map, than desired..

jachym

2007/3/23, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>:
> OK. I understand your and Hamish's points. It just seems I'm being warned
> that I'm doing what I intended to do. But others may do the same thing
> unintentionally, hence the warning.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 3/22/07 10:06 PM, "Glynn Clements" <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Michael Barton wrote:
> >
> >>>> d.rast is still noisy, even with the quiet flag. Can we turn this
> >>>> stuff off somehow?
> >>>>
> >>>> d.rast agro_soils --q
> >>>> WARNING: 'cell/agro_soils' was found in more mapsets (also found in
> >>>> user1).
> >>>> WARNING: using 'agro_soils at PERMANENT'.
> >>>
> >>> WARNINGs are not affected by verbosity controls. The above warning is
> >>> there for a reason, as you have requested an ambiguous action.
> >>
> >> This is not an ambiguous action.
> >
> > Only in the sense that, ultimately, all actions are unambiguous,
> > insofar as that they have a concrete end result.
> >
> > OTOH, the action may well have non-obvious consequences, which is
> > probably a more useful classification than whether or not it is
> > ambiguous.
> >
> >> I'm picking the version of the file in the
> >> current mapset. For that, it is unnecessary to specify the mapset.
> >
> > Incorrect.
> >
> > If you want the version which comes first in the mapset search path,
> > then it's unnecessary to specify the mapset. The current mapset
> > doesn't have to be the first one in the search path; that's just the
> > default if you don't specify an explicit search path.
> >
> >> So what if there is another file with the same name in another
> >> mapset?
> >
> > That file may well have been the one which you intended to use.
> >
> >> I may have 10
> >> files with that name in different places. What does this matter. If I want
> >> to pick any file outside the current mapset, I should specify it.
> >
> > You are free to set an explicit search path containing only the
> > current mapset (and not PERMANENT), but that isn't the default. The
> > default is the current mapset followed by PERMANENT. If you set a
> > search path which only contains one mapset (e.g. the current mapset),
> > you will never get more than one match for an unqualified name, and
> > thus will never see the warning.
>
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