[GRASS-dev] where to store GRASS settings: GISRC and wx settings

[Michael Barton]

On Aug 30, 2011, at 1:32 PM, Martin Landa wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 2011/8/30 Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>:
>>> Speaking about 7.0, it will take longer time to release, we would need
>>> more active developers to cover at least basic features we would wish
>>> for G7.
>> 
>> The easiest way to get more active developers for 7.0 is to cease
>> allowing new features to be added to 6.x.
>> 
>> Personally, I'd just kill the 6.5 branch. If something is too major to
>> go into 6.4.x, it should be reserved for 7.0.
> 
> I don't think so, just check which people are touching trunk and
> devbr6 or relbr64. Closing development in 6.x will not bring anyone to
> trunk. The real situation is that we have too few people actively
> developing GRASS. That's real reason why we are so behind of basic
> wishes we had for GRASS 7 - at least speaking about rasters, cleaning
> up 3d raster lib, etc.
> 
> Martin
> 
> -- 
> Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa


Seems an even stronger reason to focus limited development efforts on a single branch.


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