[GRASS-dev] Re: [Qgis-developer] 448

[Radim Blazek]

I have not been following GRASS development for a while.
According to what Hamish wrote, there should be no fixes important
for QGIS in 6.3. I dont know exactly when releasebranch_6_2 was created
but it seems that in 28 August 2006. IIRC I sent some fixes after this date
but I am not sure. Both 6.3 and 6.2.1 have bugs but the problem
of 6.3 is that it is changing every day. It will be probably better to
use the stable release 6.2.1 + the last patch for start.c.
Maybe it will be necessary to add some other important patches,
maybe not. In fact, we have to create our stable version of GRASS
for QGIS/Win from 6.2.1.
Maybe it would be better to create a branch for it in CVS?
Or just a dir with patches in QGIS SVN?

Radim


On 12/19/06, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
>  I really have no expertise on this, so I look to your guidance on the
> final decision...Its stll not clear to me from this discussion what
> the concensus is.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On 12/19/06, Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Radim Blazek wrote:
> > > I think that QGIS shloud use GRASS stable release, but I am not
> > > sure if there are some important fixes missing in the last stable
> > > 6.2.1.
> >
> > AFAICT (others who did the work can better answer), I think most of the
> > 6.3-cvs changes have had to do with the GUI, build system, etc, and not
> > the modules and libraries (which is what qgis is concerned with).
> >
> > There have probably been a few system("ls %s"); system("rm %s"); type
> > portability fixes in the modules/libs to watch out for though.
> >
> > So maybe 6.2.1+Radim's patch is ok to use as the basis for the 0.8 grass
> > plugin after all??
> >
> >
> > Hamish
> >
>
>
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