[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2409: last call for options keys consolidation

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#2409: last call for options keys consolidation
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 Reporter:  martinl               |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  task                  |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  blocker               |   Milestone:  7.0.0                    
Component:  Default               |     Version:  unspecified              
 Keywords:  standardized options  |    Platform:  Unspecified              
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Comment(by wenzeslaus):

 Replying to [comment:44 martinl]:
 > Replying to [comment:41 annakrat]:
 > > > "raster" shouldn't be abbreviated. "volume" should probably be
 "raster_3d" (for which "raster3d" and "rast3d" are accepted
 abbreviations).
 > >
 > > I don't like "raster_3d". If we rename "rast" to "raster", which seems
 reasonable, I would go with "raster3d", even though you can't shorten it.
 >
 > in r63189 I renamed
 >
 >      rast3d -> volume
 >
 > It means that current abbreviated option will still work expect of
 `rast3d` which needs to be renamed to `volume`.

 Why to volume? Although there was no agreement, we were often replacing
 all "voxel" and "volumne" (and others) by "3D raster" so far. The only
 three places I know about where "volume" is used are
 [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass71/manuals/v.vol.rst.html v.vol.rst] (just
 the name, not even the keyword), GUI menu/toolbox, and GUI for NVIZ.

 I'm personally against "volume" because this term means too much other
 things. (Does volume computations refer to 3D raster/voxels/voxel models
 or to cubic meters of soil or water?) It even does not bring any
 advantages for module family name (currently `r3`) which would be `v` but
 `v` is already used.

 If we are be replacing "3D raster", we should do it everywhere including
 manual and module family name
 ([http://grass.osgeo.org/grass71/manuals/raster3D.html Manual: Raster3D
 commands]).

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