[GRASS-dev] Launching GRASS 7 development

[WolfgangZ]

Markus Neteler schrieb:
> While we should concentrate now on getting out 6.3.0 (e.g.,
> fixing issues indicated by Helena [1]), it is important
> to start planning for a GRASS 7 dev-branch management.
> 
> For GRASS 6, we used for quite some time a mixed solution,
> with new code stored in the grass6/ repository and linking
> old, relevant code from grass[5]/ into it using some link
> scripts.
> 
> I am not sure if we want the same for grass7/, too.
> On the other hand, replicating code is impossible since
> it won't be well maintained given our limited resources.
> 
> Thoughts also here?
> 
> Let's continue to maintain
>  GRASS 7 ideas collection
>  http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_7_ideas_collection
> 
> Markus
> 
> [1] http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass-dev/2007-August/032579.html

I'm only a (non frequent) user of grass. But wouldn't it be nice to have 
  grass7 with its own shell, to get rid of all these bash dependencies 
which make many modules hardly portable (I would prefer a python like 
shell).
It is just a suggestion as I'm not able to contribute code.

regards
wolfgang