[GRASS-dev] v.buffer

Wolf Bergenheim wolf+grass at bergenheim.net
Thu Apr 23 04:50:50 EDT 2009


On 23.04.2009 10:53, Markus Neteler wrote:

> This is bad.
> 
> Options:
> - QGIS updates its toolbox XML file to rename the parameter
> - GRASS 6.4+ renames back "distance" to "buffer"

I think that the second option would be better. Users might have scripts
which use the old syntax. Aren't we supposed to be more or less
backwards compatible within a major version? However distance is a more
"proper" name for the parameter IMHO. So keep it as distance in 7 maybe?

--Wolf

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