[GRASS-dev] 7.x Status Update

[Glynn Clements]

Glynn Clements wrote:

> Another potentially disruptive update: the raster library now uses
> floating point values for coordinates.

Next update: the cairo driver is now the default, assuming that GRASS
was built --with-cairo. If you haven't been enabling this, now is the
time to try, as the PNG driver may not be around for much longer.

It's still possible to force the PNG driver to be used by setting
GRASS_RENDER_IMMEDIATE=PNG.

At present, it uses the "toy" font backend, which means that it only
understands a limited set of fonts (AFAICT, it understands mono, serif
and sans, and -bold and -italic variants), although support for
FreeType and stroke fonts will be added soon.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>