[GRASS5] Proposal to deprecate

[Bernhard Reiter]

David,
is it possible to maintain a conversion programm/script of some sort,
which can only upgrade v3 format files to v5?

I do not know much about who uses this, so I cannot tell if it can be
removed.
	Bernhard

On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:57:39PM +0000, David D Gray wrote:
> I would like to suggest that support for the dig(vector) version 3.0,
> left over from GRASS 3.x, be now deprecated. ie. we agree that it should
> be removed at some point in the future, say for the next major release.
> 
> It seems unlikely that many people will be using GRASS 3, though there
> may be maps still around. The portability machinery in place is perhaps
> more involved than is really justified at this stage and it makes
> further development difficult, as we are now trying to move on to
> improve dig v5 while remaining compatible with v4 (it's a pain trying to
> keep v3 going as well).
> 
> Any comments welcome.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> PS. An afterthought - is it already deprecated?
> 
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