Press release draft (was: [GRASS5] GRASS 5.0.0 to be released now)

[Glynn Clements]

Roger Bivand wrote:

> Perhaps also instead of: "Grass 5 also runs under Microsoft
> Windows (R) ... " - "Grass 5 also runs under Microsoft Windows (R) using
> the cygwin tools, ..." to avoid looking like a native port. Isn't OSX also 
> just Darwin? The rationale for the qualification would be to avoid 
> disappointing people who might expect more than is on offer.

Agreed.

Personally, I think that the "Windows/Cygwin support" should be
qualified further. It's still somewhat "experimental" (IOW, flaky),
and is likely to remain so until the issues of:

a) spaces in filenames, and
b) using tcltkgrass with Cygwin's Tcl/Tk package

are resolved.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>