nviz_cmd - was Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #392: backport G_is_c_null_value() to devbr6

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Paul Kelly
<paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 2008/12/19 Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Call it nviz2?
>>>>>
>>>>> nviz -> TCL/TK GUI
>>>>> nviz2 -> cmd line based module
>>>>>
>>>>> seems to be confusing for me...
>>>>>
>>>>> I vote for d.3d.
>>>>
>>>> or we can leave it as nviz_cmd and go ahead to 6.4.0RC1...
>>>
>>> considering d.nviz which should be also renamed (in 7.0)
>>>
>>> 6.4
>>>
>>> d.nviz
>>> nviz_cmd -> d.3d
>>>
>>> 7.0
>>>
>>> d.nviz -> d.3d.fly
>>> nviz_cmd -> d.3d
>>
>> This is a good compromise for me.
>
> I don't like last minute changes so I think it is fine too. Not sure if
> d.nviz is present in 6.4? But that's irrelevant at this point.

Sure it is there:
[neteler at markus grass64]$ ls display/d.nviz/
description.html  local.h  main.c  Makefile

>
> Are we ready to go with the tagging 6.4.0RC1 then? A new branch isn't
> absolutely necessary at the minute - but as I see it there's no reason not
> to do it now either if it's not too much extra work.

I think that a branch is commonly done in the GRASS
project, so we should continue. And with SVN merging
is easier (and G7 moves away so that at least I rarely
backport things).

Markus