[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #1132: wxNviz and wxVdigit missing from 6.4svn

[GRASS GIS]

#1132: wxNviz and wxVdigit missing from 6.4svn
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 Reporter:  hamish   |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  blocker  |   Milestone:  6.4.0                    
Component:  wxGUI    |     Version:  svn-releasebranch64      
 Keywords:           |    Platform:  Linux                    
      Cpu:  x86-64   |  
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Comment(by glynn):

 Replying to [comment:2 hamish]:

 > I can see wanting to save nviz for a backport of the improved version,
 but why was vdigit disabled? My experience with it so far on Linux has
 been very good/impressive.

 If there are any problems with the vdigit or nviz modules, you lose the
 whole wxGUI. You can catch an exception; you can't catch a segfault.

 And there are so many plausible failure modes. Most of wxGUI will work
 with any reasonably recent version of Python and wxPython, but the
 compiled modules will only work with the specific versions they were built
 against. The binary component is written C++, which tends to be more
 fragile in terms of binary compatibility.

 Finally, a release is bound to get used on a wider variety of systems than
 the development versions.

 Leaving them in might work out, or it might just prove the old adage about
 "never use a point-zero version; wait for point-one".

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