[GRASS5] GRASS 6.0.1 release question

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 04:47:39PM +1200, Hamish wrote:
> > Because of the code freeze in December (or January?), a number of
> > change I made to the GIS Manager prior to the release of 6.0 didn¹t
> > make it into 6.0. However, they are in 6.1 (e.g., buttons to manage
> > monitors). Will these go into 6.0.1 or will they remain relegated to
> > 6.1?
> 
> 6.0.1 is for bug fixes only, not for new features. So the usability
> improvements stay in the 6.1 branch. This improves stability in the
> release branch by stopping new features from introducing new bugs
> (unnoticed side effects).
> 
> e.g. "GRASS does not compile with gcc 4.0" is a critical fix.

Is it really critical for 6.0.1? Which distro comes with gcc4?
Since it's half done only for 6.1, I suggest to postpone it
for 6.0.2 so that we have time for testing.

Let's not wait with 6.0.1 release.

My 0.02 Eurocent

 Markus