[GRASS-dev] v.mapcalc missing UI

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anyone know how v.mapcalc should work? It seems to me that the
> module lacks an UI, no options, no G_parser(). It leads to the fact
> that
>
> v.mapcalc --help
>
> just freezes. I blacklisted this module in r66406 from addons
> generation. It means that this module lacks its description in
> modules.xml [1] which is used by `g.extension`. It will remain like
> that otherwise someone fix this module or GRASS parser.

I suppose that a similar job as once done for r.mapcalc has to be done:
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/32578/grass/trunk/raster/r.mapcalc


FYI - here some historic notes about the v.mapcalc development:

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2002-May/006639.html (and
subsequent emails)
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2002-July/thread.html#5931
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2002-August/006075.html

Markus