[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2408: Force reading of VAR and GISRC files in libgis

[GRASS GIS]

#2408: Force reading of VAR and GISRC files in libgis
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 Reporter:  huhabla                |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  enhancement            |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  major                  |   Milestone:  7.1.0                    
Component:  LibGIS                 |     Version:  svn-trunk                
 Keywords:  environment,GISRC,VAR  |    Platform:  Unspecified              
      Cpu:  Unspecified            |  
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 I would like to extent the GIS library environment variable management to
 support the re-reading of the environment (gisrc and VAR files) in libgis.
 At the moment this is not possible, environmental files are only read into
 memory at initialization time. Hence, the reading of environmental
 variable from different mapsets in the same process is not possible.

 I have attached a patch that introduces two new functions to force the
 reading of env files and a patch that implements the according tests using
 the gunittest testsuite.


 I would like to commit the changes next week if there are no objections.
 This modification is fundamental to allow distributed temporal databases,
 so that they are by default created in the current mapsets.

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