[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.2.3RC1 published

[Moritz Lennert]

On 21/10/07 18:49, Markus Neteler wrote:
> GRASS 6.2.3RC1 has been published today:
>  http://grass.itc.it/grass62/source/
> 
> (on the mirrors soon).
> 
> This is a release candidate for the 6.2.3 bugfix release.
> 
> Bug fixes:
> 
>     * gis.m: georectifier tool documented (Markus Neteler)
>     * r.out.bin: fixed too short buffer which would sometimes crash R-GRASS interface (Roger Bivand)
>     * v.db.update: backported fixes for numeric value types (Debian #434897) (Markus Neteler)
>     * GUI crash of g.region with accented characters (non English locale) (Maris Nartis, Hamish Bowman)
>     * gis.m: maptool crash fixed (Moritz Lennert)
>     * silently ignore --quiet and --verbose command line switches (Hamish Bowman) 
> 
> Please add, if missing, more items at
> http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_6.2_Feature_Plan#6.2.3cvs
> 
> And please *test* this release candidate.

Another fix which should be backported to 6.2.3 IMHO:

http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/grass6/gui/tcltk/gis.m/gmtree.tcl.diff?r1=1.16&r2=1.17

At least the part concerning opening a Map Display automatically if none 
is open. AFAICT, this is just the following small change:

===================================================================
RCS file: /home/grass/grassrepository/grass6/gui/tcltk/gis.m/gmtree.tcl,v
retrieving revision 1.16
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -r1.16 -r1.17
--- grass6/gui/tcltk/gis.m/gmtree.tcl	2007/02/11 20:04:41	1.16
+++ grass6/gui/tcltk/gis.m/gmtree.tcl	2007/02/19 00:07:45	1.17
@@ -287,6 +287,10 @@
      global new_root_node
      global mon

+    # Create new tree, if none exists
+    if { [array size GmTree::tree] < 1 } {
+	Gm::startmon
+    }

      if { [catch {match string {} $new_root_node}] } {
      set new_root_node root

Moritz