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

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Moritz Lennert
<mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
> On 07/08/08 06:29, Glynn Clements wrote:
>>
>> Michael Barton wrote:
>>
>>> **r.support - Need some way to access raster metadata.
>>
>> Of the four sub-modules:
>>
>>        modhead -> r.region
>>        modcats -> r.category
>>        modcolr -> r.colors
>>        modhist -> ???
>>
>> The functionality built into the front-end module is mostly
>> non-interactive, and can be cannibalised.
>>
>> So that just leaves editing the history. The obvious non-interactive
>> solution is a module (or two) which allows the history to be read from
>> or written to a text file.
>>
>
> r.support already allows non-interactive editing of most of the meta-data,
> including history (r.support map history="xyz"), so wouldn't it be enought
> to "just" disable the interactive functionality ?

modhist -> metadata

It's fundamental to maintain at a minimal level (this needs to be improved)
metadata of maps. Don't remove, please (the cmd line version).

Markus