[GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS 6.4.3RC2 released

[Michael Barton]

Actually, I already tested that a couple months back. The TclTk volume display works fine even when wxPython display does not.

Michael
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On Feb 14, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu>
 wrote:

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> On Feb 14, 2013, at 3:45 AM, Markus Metz wrote:
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>> 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.
>> 
>> 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
>>> ____________________
>>> C. Michael Barton
>>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>>> Arizona State University
>>> 
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>>> fax:          480-965-7671 (SHESC),  480-727-0709 (CSDC)
>>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu
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>>> On Feb 13, 2013, at 2:20 PM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org>
>>> wrote:
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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>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> 2013/2/3 Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Martin
>>> 
>>> [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
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa
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