[GRASS-user] whats going on with v.to.rast?

[Markus Neteler]

Hamish wrote on 09/19/2007 04:53 AM:
> Maciej Sieczka wrote:
>   
>> Markus Neteler wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 07:32:08PM +0200, Maciej Sieczka wrote:
>>>       
>>>> The message in 6.2 is missleading though. This is fixed in 6.3. The
>>>> message would be "ERROR: Cannot open existing vector <name> on level
>>>> [2]" in 6.3.
>>>>         
>>> Which are precisely the messages? Then we could fix it in 6.2.
>>>       
>> In 6.2 it's:
>>
>> ERROR: Cannot open old vector map at mapset on level 2
>>
>> In 6.3:
>>
>> ERROR: Cannot open existing vector <map at mapset> on level [2]
>>     
>
>
> It doesn't seem too misleading to me. Not enough to risk backporting
> changes.
Hamish: where is a risk to change a message?

>  Also, IMO the [] should be removed from the "on level ..." part
> as the "2" is part of the sentence, it's not parenthetical.
>
> The crux of the problem is that the various vector levels are not well
> documented or known about. It's not obvious at all what "level 2" is or
> means. We should work on the problem from that angle, starting with
> something in the vector section of the wiki. (too technical for the
> vectorintro.html page I think)
>   
In the first place it should go into the programmer's manual (doxygen):
http://mpa.itc.it/markus/grass63progman/level_8c.html#faba88262f7841017ff371cd429591c6

Markus

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