[GRASS-dev] which branch?

[Hamish]

Dylan:
> I have been using [1] as the version of GRASS that I use on
> a regular basis. I see that this version refers to itself as
> GRASS-7, and uses a new install target (as opposed to
> 'grass-6.3.svn'). 
> 
> Would it be wise to track the 'releasebranch_6_3' for a more stable
> GRASS experience? Does this version contain everything that
> 'trunk' had in it as of about a month ago?

no it is in bug fix only mode. even then 6.3.1 may or may not happen.
grass7 is likely to become unusable for a time.

 
> All of this started when I was stuck by the bug associated with [2] .
> 
> 1. https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk
> 2. http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/70
> 
> 
> As of now I was thinking about keeping one source dir in
> sync with 6.3 and one with trunk, so that I have a stable
> environment, but can still try out the new features in 7.0 .
> 
> Any tips?

yeah, use 'develbranch_6' instead of trunk or 'releasebranch_6_3'.

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/DownloadSource#GRASS6.4


Hamish