[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0

[Glynn Clements]

Martin Landa wrote:

> >  There are a lot of other script fixes not backported to 6.3.0, mostly
> >  bulk quoting of variables. I didn't backport them as I have not
> >  individually tested the changes and so don't guarantee they are no
> >  introduced typos. These will help with the spaces in pathnames problems,
> >  which are mostly a MS Windows phenomenon. I did not systematically quote
> >  everything, so it is almost certain that there will be more unquoted path
> >  and file names. These fixes might be nice to get out to MS Windows users
> >  in a 6.3.1 after more testing in SVN/trunk. Probably easier to cut a new
> >  6_3_1 branch from the main grass6 line than to bother backporting things
> >  to 6.3.0's branch.
> 
> Hm, creating branch for 6.3.1 seems to be a bit complicated to me. I
> would prefer releasing 6.3.0, creating branch for 6_4 (trunk for 7.x).
> Releasebranch_6_3 used for 6.3.1 (after tagging 6.3.0) as usually.

I would suggest keeping with releasebranch_6_3 for 6.3.1 (if it
occurs).

If you were planning on a release which (roughly) corresponds to the
current trunk, that should probably be 6.4.0. The differences between
6.3.1 should consist only of changes which have been vetted and deemed
necessary.

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