[GRASS-dev] suggested temporary feature freeze for wxGUI

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2008/9/6 Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>:
> At the moment, the GUI is pretty complete in giving a user interface to all
> of GRASS. So I suggest that this is a good time to stop adding new things
> and try to make sure all the things we already have work well. Obviously we
> should keep accumulating ideas for enhancements and new features, but simply
> try to resist the temptation to try to implement them.

I agree, proposal:

* in next weeks create releasebranch_64
* fixing bugs in the release branch
* development goes to develbranch_6 (leading to 6.5) and *especially*
trunk (grass7)
* make wxGUI working under MS Windows (including vector digitizer)
* release RC1 testable on MS Windows (including installer, Marco?) --
middle of October could be reasonable time
* till the end of the year release 6.4.0

> With a busy academic year already starting, I'm finding much less time to
> work on the GUI and I suspect that Martin's term is nearing beginning too.
> So the less developer time available, also makes this a good time for
> getting caught up with where we are now.

Yes, in next week I am going back to Prague after almost two years to
restart working at the university, so probably I will have not so much
time for wxGUI.

> I'd like to appeal for some help from you folks especially for the
> cross-platform implementation issues. Most of these are C, C++, or
> compilation related. These are areas where I do not have expertise to do

We definitely need more people to be actively involved.

Martin

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