[GRASS5] Grass 5.4 CVS snapshot

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:54:38AM +0100, Maciek Sieczka wrote:
> Maciek Sieczka <werchowyna at pf.pl> wrote:
> >>Why was the CVS snapshot 5.3/5.4 taken off? Will a CVS snapshot of Grass
> >>5.4 source code be available back? I can't access the CVS repository
> >>directly as I download Grass on different computers in different places
> >>but never at home, because at home I'm using this ancient device called
> >>modem.
> >>
> >>Since the 5.4 release in November there were some bugs fixed in modules
> >>which I use.
> 
> Paul Kelly <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote:
> >There never were any snapshots of 5.4 available. Most of the bug fixes
> >were actually applied to the 5.3/5.5-CVS HEAD. This also contains some
> >extra last-minute / 'unstable' changes that are not in 5.4.0 so a
> >copy of it might not be what you want. It is not hard to get a copy of it
> >using CVS if that's what you really want:
> >CVSROOT=:pserver:grass-guest at intevation.de:/home/grass/grassrepository
> >export CVSROOT
> >cvs login (password grass)
> >cvs -z3 co grass
> >In time the bug fixes will be extracted from the CVS HEAD and merged into
> >the 5.4 release branch, and then 5.4.1 will be released. I will do this
> >when I have some time :)
> >You can check out the 5.4 branch as
> >cvs -z3 co -r releasebranch_5_4 grass
> >but as most of the bugfixes have not been applied yet it will be virtually
> >identical to the 5.4.0 release. If other developers have time they should
> >feel free to put bugfixes onto this branch as well as the HEAD :)
> 
> Looking forward to 5.4.1 then :). Anyway, will there be a CVS source code
> snapshot of the 5.3/5.5 developement version like it was for 5.3?

Just curious: Why not changing to 6.0?
Development continues there...

Markus