[GRASS5] TODOs for 5.0.0

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:34:05PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:56:43PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> > Conclusions:
> > 
> > If non-GPL code must be removed for the 5.0.0 release, and time is
> > pressing, I suggest simply removing the offending code, and either
> > removing dependent programs, or disabling them in src/CMD/lists/GRASS. 
> > 
> > I suspect that failure to work altogether is more likely to result in
> > a program being fixed than failure to comply with the GPL.
> 
> A completly agree that we have to remove the code then.
> Disabling will collide with the GPL.

Well, disabling important tools like i.pca would be very bad.
This would upset many users. We should try to migrate at
least the i.pca and i.[i]fft, maybe look at the others with
low priority.
 
> > I'll work on egvorder/egvorder2 and rand1 initially.
> > 
> > I'm willing to work on fft/del2g and jacobi if someone can provide me
> > with test cases (test data and usage instructions) which exercise the
> > functions in question.
> 
> Thanks for helping.

I volunteer for testing and suggest to use synthetic data (as proposed
here in another thread).

Markus