[GRASS-dev] Fixing r.li

[Glynn Clements]

Markus Neteler wrote:

> > Is anyone familiar with r.li?
> 
> ... as a user ...
> 
> > How easy would it be to get rid of the (Unix-specific) client-server
> > framework so that the various r.li.* modules are just normal modules?
> 
> The idea is to have multi-core support which works. If that
> could be maintained (maybe switching to openMP), then
> the advantageous speed of r.li over r.le would be maintained.

The downside is that it doesn't even compile on Windows. It also
creates a substantial hurdle for anyone needing to modify the code.

Optimisations shouldn't be at the expense of portability. If it can't
be compiled on all three of the major target platforms (generic Unix,
MacOSX, Windows), it shouldn't be in the main repository but in
add-ons.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>