[GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS 6.4.3RC2 released

[Helena Mitasova]

On Feb 14, 2013, at 3:45 AM, Markus Metz wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>> The main blocker for the Mac has been partly fixed in trunk: broken volume
>> display. Now it displays most of the time and only crashes randomly instead
>> all the time.  If Markus Metz has backported this to 6.4.x, I'm happy to
>> test and see if it works the same way there.
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> I have disabled the gvl_align_data() function in 6.5. and 6.4, as
> suggested by you. All it does is reallocating memory to the minimum
> that is needed. Memory consumption might thus be a bit larger in GRASS
> 6 than in GRASS 7, but with regard to the ogsf lib it should work
> nevertheless because gvl_align_data() does not touch the actual data.
> Another possible source of bugs is the wxPython part of wxNVIZ because
> it uses ctypes. Does it make sense to test the old Tcl/Tk nviz and see
> if volume display works there?

yes, I should be able to run it with the old tcltk - that would be a good test,

Helena

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> Markus M
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>> Michael
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>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Arizona State University
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>> On Feb 13, 2013, at 2:20 PM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org>
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>> From: Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS 6.4.3RC2 released
>> Date: February 13, 2013 1:32:11 PM MST
>> To: Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik at web.de>
>> Cc: <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
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>> Hi,
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>> 2013/2/3 Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>:
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>> since it's more than a month ago now, what about another another RC or
>> release?
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>> agreed. After RC3 should come ideally final release.
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>> sorry for bringing this issue back. We have 2 RCs released, RC2 is
>> almost 2(!) month old. I don't see any blocker in trac [1], even
>> nothing noted on the dev's wiki [2]. Is there any blocker, if so
>> please collect them in trac or at least note them on trac page [2].
>> Currently I am afraid that we have no clear idea what is the status of
>> critical issues which have been reported within various mails in
>> various threads by various persons.
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>> Martin
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>> [1]
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&group=type&order=priority&priority=blocker&priority=critical&milestone=6.4.3&milestone=6.4.2&milestone=6.4.1&milestone=6.4.0
>> [2] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass6Planning#GRASS6.4.3
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>> --
>> Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa
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