[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              
      Cpu:  Unspecified           |  
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Comment(by wenzeslaus):

 Replying to [comment:56 martinl]:
 > Replying to [comment:55 wenzeslaus]:
 >
 > > > with lookup table `old_key:new_key` we can quite easily fix all
 scripts and manual pages. Also parser will understand `old_key` will
 continue to work. We were planned to do cleanup some years ago, this
 ticket has been open 3 months ago. I believe that it will has good
 consequences at the end. We just need to finish the job. That's all.
 >
 > done in r63209 (feel free to update
 source:grass/trunk/lib/gis/renamed_options which would be very valuable to
 avoid large consequences you mentioned), eg.
 >
 > {{{
 > d.rast map=dmt vallist=500-600
 > WARNING: Please update the interface of the module: option <vallist> has
 been renamed to <values>
 > }}}
 >
 > [...]
 >
 > > This is not user friendly and thus it goes against the original
 motivation for the change.
 >
 > Sorry, I don't understand. Do you think that it's more user friendly
 when `d.rast` fails with
 >
 {{{
 ERROR: Sorry, <vallist> is not a valid parameter
 }}}
 >
 > ?

 I was referring to rename of `rast3d` to `volume`. The `old_key` solves
 the backward compatibility issue but not the issue of two different names
 for one thing in manual which you created by introducing `volume`.

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