[GRASS-dev] GRASS-TNG

[Hruby Martin]

ok, do not worry

m.


On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Brad Douglas wrote:

> I was determined to not get involved, but I feel I've been forced to
> comment.
>
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 17:31 +0100, Hruby Martin wrote:
>> I am Radek's supervisor in his master thesis which should be a part of
>> this mentioned project. The project itself seems to be too huge to become
>> an one-man-show. For this reason, we have started asking our friends and
>> collegues in our country, like Martin Landa and Jachym Cepicky for their
>> help and comments.
>
>> From what I've gathered, it's much larger than a three-man-show, too.
>
>> Opening idea is that GRASS is too old fashioned to keep it in development
>> in current programming style. Some people will agree, some people not. We
>> just want to remake the GIS kernel and to rewrite current modules to the
>> new fashion. The whole philosophy of GRASS should remain the same.
>
> Define "old fashioned".  Sounds more like opinion than fact.
>
>> So, this is a fork to main stream development. Or, better say, this is
>> more a research. If someone wants to join, then is welcome ;-) This
>> project may be a very nice experiment.
>
> Is it really a fork() or is it being done from scratch?  From what I've
> read, it seems that the latter is the case except the layout will be
> borrowed.
>
> Let me pose a hypothetical:
> Suppose someone acquired your DNA, created a child and called it
> Upgraded Hruby Martin II.  How would you react?
>
> That is essentially what this is.  It seems clear to me that there no
> intention or path to contribute back to GRASS.  It's a one way street
> and that bothers me.
>
> I encourage new developments.  All I ask is please don't call it
> something it isn't.
>
>
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