[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.4.3 release planning

[Anna Petrášová]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> regarding the r.mapcalc issue in command console on wingrass -
>> (sorry I did not make it clear it was for wingrass - it always worked
>> well on Mac and linux)
>>
>> It is not critical, windows users can still use the mapcalculator GUI
>> where it runs OK,
>> but the r.mapcalc in the command console still does not seem to work -
>> tried by a student
>> using June 26 snapshot this is what she says:
>>
>> Here are examples of the commands run and the errors received:
>> r.mapcalc urban2_30m=if(landuse96_28m==1 ||
>> landuse96_28m==2,landuse96_28m,null())
>> syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ')'
>> Parse error
>> 'landuse96_28m' is not recognized as an internal or external
>>
>> command,
>> operable program or batch file.
>>
>> r.mapcalc MASK=if((elevation<100 && elevation>60) && (landuse96_28m==1 ||
>> landuse96_28m==2),1,null())
>> 1 was unexpected at this time.
>>
>> This is the same we were getting in GRASS6.4.3RC2 and apparently the
>> proposed solutions did not work
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2013-February/062047.html
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2013-March/062607.html
>
>
>
> I had the opportunity to test Glynn's patch (the second link above) on
> Windows and it seems to solve the problems. From the discussion I can see
> that Markus already tested it but he was not successful, so I applied the
> patch to 6.5 first.
> All the commands causing problems are now working with both (", ') quotes
> and without, only the command with || requires quotes.
>
> Anna
>

Seems to work, I applied it to all branches, please test (using e.g. the
commands above).

Anna


>
>>
>> if I get this confirmed I will file a bug report (I thought I already
>> did, but it is not there).
>> If it is not fixable it should be at least mentioned on the known issues
>> web page
>> http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/WinGRASS_Current_Status#Raster_modules
>>
>> Helena
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Helena:
>> >> I am also wondering whether the r.mapcalc expressions with || (or)
>> >> now run from the wxGUI command console.
>> >
>> > I just tried on linux 6.4.3svn wxGUI command console:
>>
>> >   r.mapcalc "either = 0 || 1"
>> > and it worked.
>> >
>> > In general I wouldn't be surprised if full command line quoting took
>> > years and huge amounts of effort to (re)perfect. And even then, does
>> > it try to follow Bash conventions, or python, or DOS, or some mix of
>> > all those? How much do we try to (re)teach about command line
>> > techniques in our own docs? Will unquoted input=C:\Users\files\data.txt
>> > always be parsed to input=C:Usersfilesdata.txt (literal \U, \f, \d)
>> > in the command console in that case?
>> >
>> >
>> > best,
>>
>> > Hamish
>> >
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