[GRASS-dev] Re: 7.x Status Update (Glynn Clements)

[Michael Barton]

Glynn,

Here are some comments from the GUI side, and some personal  
observations. *indicates importance for GRASS 7.

On Aug 6, 2008, at 6:29 PM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org> <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org 
 > wrote:

> d.ask - I don't think this is used much at all
> d.colors - Not used much but some useful tools for modifying color  
> tables. Maybe the underlying code is useful for this?
> d.extend - It would be nice to get this functionality with g.region  
> rast=map,map,map vect=map,map,map
> *d.extract - This is important functionality. See my vector query  
> post from today
> **d.font - This is used in the GUI to set the screen font. We need  
> the equivalent of this function
> d.font.freetype - AIUI, this is replaced by d.font
> d.frame - Everyone agrees that cartography functions are very  
> desirable. But this module was too primitive
> d.measure - Duplicated in GUI
> d.menu - An old way to make a GUI; no longer needed
> d.mon - Replaced by GUI canvases
> d.profile - Replicated GUI
> d.rast.edit - Replicated in TclTk but not in wxGUI
> d.save - I believe still used in d.out.file, along with d.mon. This  
> script is no longer functional
> d.what.rast - Replicated with GUI wrapper for r.what
> d.what.vect - Replicated with GUI wrapper for v.what
> d.where - Built into GUI canvases
> d.zoom - Built into GUI canvases with more functionality
> g.ask - Not sure what it does
> g.setproj - Replicated in GUI using g.proj
> i.ask - Not sure what it does
> **i.class - This seems important. Not replicated in GUI.
> **i.ortho.photo - Important. Not replicated in GUI
> i.points - Replicated in GUI georectifier modules
> i.vpoints - Replicated in GUI georectifier modules
> r.digit - Unneeded? v.digit -> v.to.rast
> *r.le.setup - I think needed to run r.le. How much is replicated by  
> r.li?
> r.le.trace - Same
> **r.support - Need some way to access raster metadata.


Michael