[GRASS5] Towards a 5.1.0 experimantal release

[Bernhard Reiter]

Markus also told me that GRASS 5.1 and its vector format is 
stable in production use for months at ITC.

There have been many plans what should be added for 5.1, 
but not much development help for Radim or Markus.

I therefore propose that 
we should make the improved vector support of GRASS 5.1
as designed and implemented by Radim 
the main focus of the 5.2 release.

There is no reason to not bring this improved vector
capabilities to a broader audience for testing and then production use.


This means: 
We would try to go for a real experimental release (5.1.0) tarball.
Therefore we should move modules over by procedure to be defined
and call a freeze on major features for 5.2.

For each module fully declared moved to 5.1 
the development focus will change.
Developments then have to take place in the 5.1 tree
and focus on getting 5.1. ready for release.

If we all agree on the general plan 
we could start making a list of modules that need to be moved
and necessary cleanup steps that we might want to perform
in the move. Note that if people don't help with this,
the modules that will be fully supported in 5.1 
will be decided by the active people 
according to their time and interests.

	Bernhard

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 06:04:59PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Here a quick status report - GRASS 5.1 development

> Important changes:
>  - vector     -> 2D and 3D support
>  - sites      -> vector (sites functionality is in vector now)
>  - nviz       -> extended to 3D vectors (faces)
>  - tcltkgrass -> d.m (with small map print manager)
>  - menus for each module generated on startup (tcl/tk based)
>  - DBMS support per default (DBF) for vector data
>  - vector network analysis support (4 modules so far)
>  - new v.clean with several tools

> 
> Some screenshots:
>  http://mpa.itc.it/radim/g51/
> 
> Draft Tutorial:
>  http://grass.itc.it/grass51/tutorial/
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