[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #975: WxGUI should provide area measurement tool

[GRASS GIS]

#975: WxGUI should provide area measurement tool
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  Reporter:  marisn       |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  6.5.0                    
 Component:  wxGUI        |     Version:  unspecified              
Resolution:               |    Keywords:  d.measure                
  Platform:  All          |         Cpu:  All                      
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Comment (by hamish):

 Glynn:
 > IOW, important functionality must not depend upon the existence
 > of the SWIG bindings in grass.lib.

 so we need to port m.distance.py to C. ok; swigged python -> should be
 pretty easy.


 (fwiw my 2c naming preference is to use g.* for Gis support things (eg
 g.findfile) and m.* for geoMath things (eg m.cogo, m.proj), and so
 m.{distance|measure} instead of g.*)



 > SWIG is not particularly well documented and seems to be
 > relatively unstable.

 It occurs to me that we are a bit spoiled by our long-time use of hyper-
 mature ANSI C and tcl/tk. wx and even python are still evolving very fast
 by comparison.


 Hamish

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