[GRASS5] GRASS 6.0.1 release schedule

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 09:04:55PM +1200, Hamish wrote:
...
> Another important system bug I just remembered -- the help pages and the 
> GUIs do not use the opt->key_desc descriptions. !!
> 
> e.g.
> G> d.barscale --help
> Usage:
>  d.barscale [-mflt] [bcolor=name] [tcolor=name] [at=x,y]
> 
> 
> d.barscale help page:
>  SYNOPSIS
>  d.barscale [-mflt] [bcolor=string] [tcolor=string] [at=float]
> 
> 
> all the hinting is lost & "at=x,y" becomes "at=float". Thus the help 
> pages are less helpful and even misleading as to what option input 
> should look like. Same with the module GUI frontends (float, optional).
> 
> Worse is d.legend where [at=bottom,top,left,right] becomes [at=float]
> in the help page and tcltk GUI. Unless the user stumbles across --help,
> they are left to guess past the errors. Not good.
> 
> thus
> 
> "g.module --html-description" is wrong.
> "g.module --tcltk" is wrong.
> 
> but
> 
> "g.module --interface-description" is correct.
> 
> 
> I think it is important to fix this before a 6.0.1 release.

I don't think so. We cannot wait longer, there are
*critical* bugfixes already waiting to be published.
We can have 6.0.2 then.


Markus