[GRASS5] The status of 5.0

[rgrmill at rt66.com]

Glynn wrote:

> Note that the monitor sockets no longer live in <mapset>/.tmp/..., 
but
> in /tmp/grass-<user>.

That change was made in 5.0 since pre2?

That seems like a good change, but not necessarily better then saving 
under a user's ".grass" directory, which was the original option.  
Hopefully this was done in such a way that it won't cause me major 
update problems.  Clearly while this change might be benign it should 
serve as an example of how changes in GRASS could make it very difficult 
to upgrade a production GRASS installation.

Further, this is a pretty fundamental change.  This along with some 
relatively recent changes in the monitor procedures just reinforce my 
impression that GRASS5.0 is *not* yet stable.


Roger Miller