[GRASS-dev] rename wxgrass / g.gui

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2008/2/8, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>:
> Martin Landa wrote:
> > I remember there was discussion about renaming wxgrass [1]. Before
> > wxgui will be used by users, I would like to raise this question
> > again.
> ...
> > [1]
> > http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2007-August/032604.html
>
> the whole thread, more ideas:
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/21880
>
>
> > I think we should rename wxgrass script to wxgui
>
> +1, although it is a bit generic?
> eg possible namespace collision with python-gnuradio. [apt-file search]
> (that seems just to be a directory name, but ...)
> I guess as long as it's an internal grass module and not in /usr/bin
> it's ok?

hm, wxgui is maybe too much generic name. When we have g.gui, we don't
need to copy wxgrass/wxgui script to $GISBASE/scripts. $GISBASE/etc/wx
(or better $GISBASE/etc/wxpython) would be sufficient place . The
wxgui will be started via g.gui type=wxpython.

> > and create module like g.gui or whatever (?)
>
> +0 for the name. Sounds ok.
>
> I suppose g.gui will be a script, and it should use the normal parser
> unless there is some big reason not to. So --tcltk option would become
>   g.gui gui=[wxpy|tcltk|oldtcltk]
> or whatever names you like, with the default set to ...
>
> IIUC d.m and gis.m will be dropped for GRASS 7. I think it is ok to

+1

> mandate Python for GRASS 7 but we should keep it optional for GRASS 6.
> .... So what language to write g.gui in?
> Both /bin/sh + .bat versions depending on platform via Makefile magic?
> Do it in C?

Not sure, I wrote draft in C

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/43

Martin

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