[GRASS-dev] Re: i.ortho.photo

[Glynn Clements]

Hamish wrote:

> > 	r33944 | hamish | 2008-10-21 03:35:40 +0100 (Tue, 21 Oct 2008) | 1 line
> > 	remove code based on Vask_lib+Xmons; porting will happen in
> > 	develbranch6 then when operational be merged back into grass7 SVN
> > 
> > Isn't this backwards?
> > 
> > There's no need for i.ortho.photo to change in 6.4, as monitors (and
> > the display architecture generally) won't be changing there.
> 
> it's just easier to incrementally test with an otherwise working suite.
> i.e. the config file setup modules will be pretty easy to fix, while the
> two i.points clones may take much longer.
> 
> I had thought about leaving i.ortho.photo/libes/ in trunk, as that has
> some hope of being reused (ie all but ask_camera.c to be merged into
> lib/imagery/). My primary motivation was that porting fixes between two
> active branches seemed like a nightmare.

It probably will be a nightmare. Which is why I would suggest not
bothering with 6.4. Anything done there will have a rather limited
life expectancy, and may not actually help all that much for 7.0.

I suspect that the "incremental" approach will be more trouble than
it's worth, i.e. you'll end up repeatedly writing code then discarding
it.

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