[GRASS5] Grass 5.4 CVS snapshot

[Maciek Sieczka]

Maciek Sieczka <werchowyna at pf.pl> wrote:
>> Why was the CVS snapshot 5.3/5.4 taken off? Will a CVS snapshot of Grass
>> 5.4 source code be available back? I can't access the CVS repository
>> directly as I download Grass on different computers in different places
>> but never at home, because at home I'm using this ancient device called
>> modem.
>>
>> Since the 5.4 release in November there were some bugs fixed in modules
>> which I use.

Paul Kelly <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote:
> There never were any snapshots of 5.4 available. Most of the bug fixes
> were actually applied to the 5.3/5.5-CVS HEAD. This also contains some
> extra last-minute / 'unstable' changes that are not in 5.4.0 so a
> copy of it might not be what you want. It is not hard to get a copy of it
> using CVS if that's what you really want:
> CVSROOT=:pserver:grass-guest at intevation.de:/home/grass/grassrepository
> export CVSROOT
> cvs login (password grass)
> cvs -z3 co grass
> In time the bug fixes will be extracted from the CVS HEAD and merged into
> the 5.4 release branch, and then 5.4.1 will be released. I will do this
> when I have some time :)
> You can check out the 5.4 branch as
> cvs -z3 co -r releasebranch_5_4 grass
> but as most of the bugfixes have not been applied yet it will be virtually
> identical to the 5.4.0 release. If other developers have time they should
> feel free to put bugfixes onto this branch as well as the HEAD :)

Looking forward to 5.4.1 then :). Anyway, will there be a CVS source code
snapshot of the 5.3/5.5 developement version like it was for 5.3?

Maciek