[GRASS-SVN] r42820 - grass-web/trunk/announces

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Author: hamish
Date: 2010-07-17 21:49:12 +0000 (Sat, 17 Jul 2010)
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-We are pleased to announce the release of the new stable version GRASS
-GIS 6.4. As a stable release, GRASS 6.4 will enjoy long term support
-for daily production work. Due to our conservative stabilization
-policy this is the first official version of GRASS to introduce new
-features since October 2006 and supersedes the previous stable line of
-GRASS 6.2. As such the floodgates are open and there are many new
-features to explore and many new structural improvements to be found
-(for details, see <link>). GRASS has now been translated to twenty
-languages and supports a huge array of data formats through the
-commonly used Geospatial Data Abstaction Library (link to
-http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SoftwareUsingGdal) .
-
-GRASS 6.4 brings a number of exciting enhancements: First and foremost
-our new wxPython user interface is debuted, Python is now a fully
-supported scripting language, and for the first time since its
-inception with a port from the VAX 11/780 in 1983, GRASS will now run
-natively on a non-UNIX based platform: MS-Windows.
-
-In addition to bringing the GRASS GIS suite to a host of new users,
-the ability to run GRASS on any common computer platform furthers our
-goal of open access to the GRASS GIS suite. We hope you will enjoy the
-ability to use this GIS suite on the system that is most convenient to
-you and your work.
-
-Due to the freshness of WinGrass there may be some rough edges yet to
-discover, but we believe the foundation is solid and so any problems
-will be solved quickly. If need be, enhanced 6.4 releases will be made
-available. None the less, after 1.5 years of dedicated
-quality-assurance review we are very pleased with the results. Users
-can be confident to use this version for their day to day work, indeed
-due to the open development model many already do. Existing UNIX and
-Mac users will be happy to know that these new features do not disrupt
-their base GIS which remains as solid as ever and fully backwards
-compatible with earlier GRASS 6.0 and 6.2 releases.
-
-Full story at http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass640.html
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