On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Moritz Lennert <mlenn...@club.worldonline.be> wrote: > On 05/03/09 10:43, Markus Neteler wrote: .. >> Suggestion: >> make SQLite as default DBMS driver in devel_branch6 (alias GRASS 6.5). >> Since today, in 2009, the driver has received a lot of testing, is >> definitely superiour to DBF (where we regularly get complaints). > > +1 > >> >> If allowing one file per map isn't too hard to implement as optional >> feature it might be a (last) requirement to make it the default driver. > > I think that for the same arguments as those brought forward by Glynn above, > we should make single file db the default. Anyone who really needs it can > easily create a per-vector db with v.db.connect.
Remember that Glynn mentioned that joins won't work in this case. > Concerning the need to be able to easily backup/share, I think we definitely > need some module which isolates and exports a series of chosen maps in a new > temporary mapset with a local sqlite db file, copies the chosen maps into > this temp mapset and then creates a tarball (or zip or whatever) with the > basic LOCATION info (i.e. a PERMANENT mapset with PROJ and WIND files) and > the temp mapset. Shouldn't be too hard to wip up, or ? Essentially a v.pack/v.unpack, right? Markus _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
