[GRASS-dev] default GUI

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/22 Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>:
>
> [...]
>
>> What's the timescale for a 6.4.0 release? Is there enough time to
>> decouple the wx vdigit and nviz modules into separate programs? That
>> would eliminate the most likely source of major problems.
>
> I don't think that there is enough time to do that. First 6.4.0 RC
> 12/2008, the last (RC5) 7/2009, now we have end of September - it's
> seems to me as very very long time for RC stage. I was hoping that we
> could release 6.4.0 in April 2009 , then in June, ... and now in
> October. To have one year for RCs seems to me as too unacceptable
> time...

Or the other way round? We started the 6.4.0 RC business too early...
In any case, despite frustrations about the long release cycle, I would
say that the achieved quality improvements are obvious and unavoidable
to reach stability.

> I would be happy to see 6.4.0 out and discuss if we would be
> able to change release politics (releases more often, less RCs, etc.)

Yes. And/or start later the RC separation.

> Initially I was not thinking about wxGUI as default for 6.4.0. Few
> days ago some of devs/users started speaking about that. That's not up
> me to decide, I cannot compare stability/usability of wxGUI versus
> TCL/TK GUI. One of problem of the wxGUI are extensions which are not
> separated from the main program (e.g. local copy of PseudoDC is used
> when vector digitizer is available otherwise PseudoDC from wxPython is
> used which can cause problems sometimes, etc.).

What do you think about Glynn's latest comment?

Markus