[GRASS-dev] Re: grass-dev Digest, Vol 29, Issue 73

[Michael Barton]

On Sep 29, 2008, at 7:15 AM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org> <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org 
 > wrote:

> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:58 +0100
> From: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] porting r.in.wms to python
> To: Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>
> Cc: grass-dev <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Message-ID: <18656.3242.499833.994253 at cerise.gclements.plus.com>
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> Hamish wrote:
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>> before anyone spends any time porting r.in.wms/r.tileset to python,
>
> I was planning on leaving those until last ;)
>
> Are there any other scripts which don't need to be converted?
>
> g.mlist/g.mremove are low priority now that there is a C version.
>
> Do {r,r3}.mapcalculator need to be kept? ISTR that the original
> motivation was the fact that {r,r3}.mapcalc couldn't be run from the
> GUI due to not using G_parser(), but that's no longer the case.

Yes. That was the reason for r.mapcalculator.

r.mapcalc now runs from the GUI and I built a wxPython graphical  
calculator for use in the GUI. So I don't see any reason to keep the  
old r.mapcalculator shell script.

Michael