[GRASS5] Proposal to deprecate

[Bernhard Reiter]

It is always good to keep compatibility.
But is can be done by a seperate conversion script.
We only need to provide one conversion path for each data file version,
so no need to make a real intelligent conversion file suite.

	Bernhard

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 07:13:06PM +0000, David D Gray wrote:
> Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> > is it possible to maintain a conversion programm/script of some sort,
> > which can only upgrade v3 format files to v5?

> It would be v3 <-> v6 

> The problem is that the design of the version portability code makes it
> difficult to maintain portability across more than two versions
> simultaneously.


On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:55:33AM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:40:09PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> *if required*, such a converter should be sufficient. I am working
> with GRASS for many years now and never had any dataset in dig3
> format. Maybe we can ask the <grasslist at baylor.edu> if anyone is
> still interested in dig3, but I think (hope) that it is history.


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