[GRASS5] Proposed process for GRASS reorganization (please read)

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> Thinking about this, I really would call it a redesign and redevelopment
> so why call it GRASS? We call do not know if the redesign works out and
> how long people will still use GRASS 5.x. So why cutting of the
> possibility of the GRASS 5.x development line to be continued in numbers.
>
> A new free GIS project based on GRASS is certainly very good, but I think
> that it should have a new name.

  Why? When you buy a new model car, does it have a different brand name?
Other software evolve, but use the data produced by older versions and they
still retain the same name.

  You're welcome to make your own GIS called whatever you'd like, but I
don't find any reason to change the name from GRASS because it's
restructured.

  If you're running linux, look at the changes in the kernel and ip
functions between even the 2.0 and 2.2 kernels. No longer do we have
ipfwadmin, we have ipchains. Same linux kernel, new structures.

Rich

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