[GRASS-dev] r.stream.* to trunk - what about r.stream.basins?

[Moritz Lennert]

On 27/03/14 14:08, Newcomb, Doug wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I very much appreciate the efforts in the code sprint this week!
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik at web.de
> <mailto:hellik at web.de>> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>     1) to keep r.stream.basins as an add-on, demanding the delineation of
>     multiple subbasins from coordinates to a user´s script looping
>     r.water.outlet;
>     2) to include r.stream.basins and keep also r.water.outlet;
>     3) to include r.stream.basins in the core and remove r.water.outlet as
>     obsolete.
>     4) ?
>
>     regards from Vienna
>
>     Madi, Helmut
>
>     [1] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/addons/r.stream.basins.html
>     [2] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/r.water.outlet.html
>     [3] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/r.watershed.html
>
>
> If r.stream.basins can replicate the functionality of r.water.outlet, I
> would prefer 3  . Some argument might be made for a conservative
> approach for option 2 for version 7.0 and drop r.water.outlet in version
> 7.1, but 7.0 is in development status. Why not make the change now?

As long as results are identical, +1. If not, this should be explored 
further.

Moritz