Changes between Version 25 and Version 26 of Grass8Planning

Timestamp:

Jun 2, 2018, 11:15:46 AM (6 years ago)

Author:

cmbarton

Comment:

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Grass8Planning

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  * Outcome: Consistent naming of "grassdata" in doc, GUI, API (measurable). Clear way of creating instructions for beginners. Improved understating of the concept (long-term).
  * Challenges: name length, strong legacy ("GISDBASE" on many places), backwards compatibility (API changes), convention (such as grassdata) versus naming, different internal naming, relation to location and mapset, GRASS versus GRASS GIS, lowercase letters (as in thing, concept) versus uppercase (as in file format)
+ * Consistency is perhaps the main thing needed: 
+   * GISDBASE is an environment variable and an abbreviated form of "GRASS GIS Database", 
+   * "dbase=" is an argument to change GISDBASE in several modules (e.g. g.mapset, r.reproject, etc), 
+   * "grassdata" is a commonly used name of a directory that serves as a GRASS GIS Database. However, a person can have more than one GIS Database or may want to give it a different name. That should be OK. 
+   * The modules that change GISDBASE should have arguments of "gisdbase=", not "dbase=". That would alleviate considerable confusion
+   * When referring to the GIS Database in the interface, we should use the term "GIS Database" (or something similar) consistently. Again, consistency can help with confusion here.   
 * Naming: replace the term location (Location, LOCATION)
  * See wiki:wxGUIDevelopment/New_Startup and [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2018-June/088531.html grass-dev: a proposal to rename location].''