[GRASSLIST:5837] Re: V.import and v.in.tiger.scs

[Glynn Clements]

Schuyler Fishman wrote:

> Why does it seem that certain binaries are missing from the 
> installation of grass from your OpenOsX cd? I find certain commands in 
> the manual pages that seem to be current, but then the commands do not 
> exist in grass.
> 
> For example, the man page states that there would be 8 option for 
> v.import, your release offers 3. Also vi.in.tiger.scs does not seem to 
> exists, as well as a vi.in.tig.rim and a few others.
> 
> Is there a place to download these commands seperately? or are they 
> part of 5.0.1 beta?

Unfortunately, GRASS manual pages tend to persist long after the
program which they describe has been disabled or removed. Also,
programs are often updated without the manual pages being updated
accordingly.

Neither v.in.tiger.scs nor v.in.tig.rim are in any GRASS binary
distribution. The source code still exists in the CVS repository, and
in the source code packages, but it isn't compiled by default. This
normally indicates that the code doesn't work. However, the build
system doesn't provide any mechanism to prevent specific manual pages
from making it into the binary distribution.

Regarding v.import, the manual page is clearly very outdated; v.import
only had three options in GRASS 4.3, and still only has three options
in the latest CVS versions.

None of these issues are specific to the OpenOSX CD; they apply
equally to the binary distributions which are available from the GRASS
web site.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>