[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.4.0 release branch forthcoming

Laura Toma ltoma at bowdoin.edu
Mon Nov 3 12:58:29 EST 2008



I'll look into this precision issue,   though not sure how long it  
will take.
-Laura


On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:

> (cc Laura)
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Paul Kelly
> <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Hamish wrote:
>>
>>> MN:
>>>>
>>>> We can certainly freeze devel_grass6 and just tag RC1
>>>> directly from that and test it rigorously. But are we
>>>> sure that nobody inserts new features?
>>>
>>> As a priority I think we can copy r.viewshed over intact,
>>
>> r.viewshed still needs updating to GRASS style and conventions,  
>> e.g. there
>> are at least quite a lot of printf() statements - from a quick  
>> glance a lot
>> of these seem to be in code used for debugging and benchmarking  
>> and there
>> are also comments such as "only used in standalone version". Code  
>> that is
>> not used should be removed I feel, but it could be a lot of work.
>
> Possible it is a mixture of the standalone non-GRASS version and the
> GRASS version?
>
> There is yet a precision problem in r.viewshed, just run
> grass-addons/raster/r.viewshed/testscript.sh
> in any location to see the problem and differences to r.los.
>
> Markus



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