[GRASS5] The status of 5.0

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 11:41:20AM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 08:14:00AM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:

> ... and please keep in mind: bugfixing for GRASS is quite often done
> in less than 48h - the response times are quite high. 

Which is good.
This is why we need the release branch so badly:
When making a tarball is a 30 minute process,
we can easily release a tarball from last release with _just_ the
fix and nothing else. (Provided it is a critical bug worth fixing.)

Then there are minor bugs and we've got to relay these for the next
tarball release and not point people to development branches or CVS
versions.

The following certainly should be in a FAQ:

> Going back to the initial mail for this thread: Most problems with
> vector processing in GRASS are related to odd data, not to the modules.
> What GRASS is really lacking is a tool to clean up non-topological
> vector data to be processed in a topological GIS. When generating
> the vectors within GRASS, the vector capabilities are quite functional.
> 
> Probably the topological  clean up of imported data should be separated
> from the import modules (e.g. v.in.shape) to have this issue for
> transparent for the users. Only then some will realize, that SHAPE is
> the problem and not the (certainly limited) 2D vector engine of GRASS.
> 
> Markus
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