[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2289: v.colors not working

[Glynn Clements]

Huidae Cho wrote:

> I think in the long term it would be better to change the raster directory
> structure such that raster and vector have the same mapset/(raster,
> vector)/mapname/element path. Then we would be able to move some useful
> element related functions from librast to libgis.

The main downsides are:

1. You lose the ability to access the data with older versions of
GRASS.

2. You're more likely to run into limits on the number of maps within
a mapset. IIRC, ext2/ext3 doesn't allow a directory to have more than
32000 subdirectories, whereas there's no practical limit to the number
of files. OTOH, given that raster maps invariably have a non-empty
cell_misc subdirectory, this is probably a moot point.

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