[GRASS5] Grass 5.4 CVS snapshot

[Helena Mitasova]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 11:05:10PM +0100, Maciek Sieczka wrote:
> > Maciek Sieczka <werchowyna at pf.pl>
> > >Looking forward to 5.4.1 then :). Anyway, will there be a CVS source code
> >
> > Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it>
> > >Just curious: Why not changing to 6.0?
> > >Development continues there...
> >
> > I'm using both. Same as most GRASS people I know.
> 
> Really? Why should they?

because in 6.0 we cannot yet do some of the things that we could do in
5.3 
and that are needed in our projects. I have to use both 5.3 and 6.0 too. 

> 
> IMHO it's better to report what's missing in the new GRASS
> than continuing older (and probably buggy) software.

But I aggree with you that we should keep our focus on 6.0 and get
everything
working there - at least I am trying to do that for our modules but
there are stil 
open problems with sites.

Helena


> Of course a personal choice.
> 
> > Why not having both up to date if possible?
> 
> - e.g. to enforce that people use recent GRASS. In general they
>   are free to use whatever they want, but then they will start asking
>   for bugfixes for old versions (which won't happen usually).
> 
> - then, additionally, to keep the Web site below 700MB to fit onto
> a single CDROM (we are at 740MB currently).
> 
> Markus
> 
> PS: To make you happy, I have stored the recent 5.5-CVS snapshot here:
>     http://mpa.itc.it/markus/tmp/grass-5.5-cvs_src.tar.gz
>     Note that it is probably equal or even faster to update from CVS
>     directly using the -z3 flag. I was working with a 56k modem
>     the last 5 years...
> 
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