[GRASS-dev] WinGrass-Installer - definition of the destination folder?

[Helena Mitasova]

On Jan 18, 2010, at 6:33 AM, Hamish wrote:

> Hamish:
>>> AFAIK there are no more major RC-blockers left
> 
> [bzzt, the wingrass lat/lon location creation has come up]
> 
> 
> As I see it we are in need of three things-
> 
> 1) a current, usable wingrass download for those needing to
> get work done/teach now.

we just started last week with 17 students in regular class and 11 in
distance education, most of them installed winGRASS last week.
The first homework is due tomorrow so the basic functionality, including 
nviz will get tested right away. I will report on how it goes.
We don't do much vector attribute DB operations and no
image processing so if somebody can get those tested on broader
scale that would be great.

Helena

> 
> 2) something that gets as much testing as possible for the
> 6.4.0 code with its final goals, which means exposing as many
> bugs as possible, sooner rather than later.
> 
> 3) A formal 6.4.0.X pre-release to act as a delta to compare
> against for reversions, and a bit of a needed "we are getting
> somewhere" boost. it's been half a year since the last one and
> I'm sure you can hear my frustration starting to leak out...
> 
> 
> Glynn wrote:
>> Then release RC6 -right now-, with the default installation
>> directory as %ProgramFiles%\GRASS-64-RC6.
> 
> That would be ok as the default IF we reenable the "expect (and
> please report!) problems if you put it somewhere with spaces"
> warning message for the benefit of the folks falling into (1)
> above. Users need to be given the choice if they want to be
> front-line testers or not.
> 
> With that warning message we'd get all three of the above in a
> single release, & without having to wait for it. It's probably
> helpful to have it there if only to mentally prepare wingrass RC
> users to expect a bit of turbulence.
> 
> 
> regards,
> Hamish
> 
> 
> 
> 
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