[GRASS-dev] suggested temporary feature freeze for wxGUI

[Michael Barton]

This all sounds like a good plan. See below for a couple comments.
On Sep 6, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Martin Landa wrote:

> 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?) --

Don't forget Mac too. Maybe William Kyngesburye can help with the  
compilation issues. Neither vdigit nor the new ndim visualizer will  
compile with Mac--even though it is on a Unix platform.

>
> 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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