[GRASS-dev] Re: subgroups in grass7

[Michael Barton]

On Jan 31, 2009, at 8:27 AM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:27:35 +0100
> From: Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>
> Subject: [GRASS-dev] Re: subgroups in grass7
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> Hi,
>
> 2009/1/10 Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>:
>> while reading
>>
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/134
>>
>> Do we really need subgroups in G7? It would simplify usage of many
>> modules. E.g. I don't understand why I need to define subgroup for
>> i.maxlik.
>>
>> Thanks for clarification.
>
> so should I understand that subgroups are not really used in GRASS?
>
> Another question - I would suggest to generalize i.group to g.group -
> module which can group raster or vector layers into groups. This would
> require to move group-related subroutines from imagery to gis library.
> Then some v.* modules could accept vector layers group - e.g.
> v.transform.

I second this latter idea. I also just had a report that the 'v.group'  
hack that is needed by the georectifier module is now broken in 6.5  
(and 6.4?) for wxPython. It is still working OK in TclTk.

Michael