[GRASS-dev] GRASS 7 development started

[Michael Barton]

This sounds OK to me--though I admit to not following the detailed
intricacies of version control.

Michael


On 4/28/08 7:41 AM, "Martin Landa" <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 2008/4/28 Paul Kelly <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk>:
> Michael:
>>> Maybe I misunderstand this process, but I'm confused by this suggestion.
>>> 
>>> Why take the wxPython GUI out of the GRASS 7 trunk? My understanding is
>> that
>>> we can develop for 6.4 in the 6.4 branch, and as needed develop for 7 in
>>> that branch. Because the GUI operates at a relatively high level--i.e.,
>>> simply a wrapper for GRASS commands in most cases, there will be much that
>>> can simply be done in parallel or via porting across branches
>>> 
>>> My suggestion would be to take /gui/tcltk out of trunk and leave
>>> /gui/wxpython in. It's the TclTk interface that is going away.
>>> 
> Paul:
>>  This makes sense to me too. I thought development of wxpython GUI in 6.x
>> would stop now - that it being developed there was just because we didn't
>> have a separate repository for 7.x. My understanding has been:
>> 
>>  TclTk GUI = legacy stable GUI for 6.x
>>  WxPython GUI = futuristic development GUI for 7.x
> 
> I agree with you, anyway I still incline to use for wxGUI development
> develbranch_6 for the short period. My initial idea was:
> 
> 1) to remove gui/wxpython from trunk (or just to 'freeze', i.e. don't
> backport from develbranch_6) and use develbranch_6 for wxGUI
> development
> 2) after creating releasebranch_6_4 move wxGUI development to trunk a
> backport to develbranch_6/releasebranch_6_4 only bugfixes (depends how
> much will be trunk "stable")
> 
>>  (I don't meant to imply the wxpython GUI isn't working nicely and usable
>> with 6.x now, just that I thought that was a "side-effect"...) I guess this
>> is from an "outsider's perspective" really, as I haven't been working on the
>> GUI apart from a few bugfixes to gis.m. But having it like this also makes
>> it very clear and logical from a user's perspective which is important in
>> relation to the expectations they will have from different versions of GRASS
>> IMHO.
> 
> Martin

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