[GRASS5] GRASS 5.0.0stable to be released soonish

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:31:06PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 08:47:52PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> > 
> > > > since all release critical bugs are fixed, we should release
> > > > GRASS 5.0.0stable now.
> > > > 
> > > > For that we can use the existing pre4 branch. Maybe Glynn could
> > > > check if any important change was not submitted to (post-)pre4
> > > > branch?
> > > 
> > > OK, I'll look into it. However, 257 files differ between pre4 and the
> > > head, so it may take a while to check everything.
> > 
> > Fortunately, many of them correspond to bulk changes.
> 
> We will not include them.
> I strongly advise against merging now.

Did you really read the mail of Glynn? There are several important
fixes mentioned. GRASS cannot even installed without at least the
Makefile fix etc.

> We should run checks for the release branch code and then release it
> as 5.0.0 or pre5. 
> 
> > Also, if any fundamental changes are to be included (e.g. the libgis
> > I18N), we should consider labelling the next release as "pre5" rather
> > than "final".
> 
> No fundamental changes.  Only critical bug fixes.
> And everybody should have committed them already to the release branch.

.. which didn't happen...

Also a bugfix from David for v.in.shape is in the queue (he wrote to
me personally since he is currently no subscriber).

Markus