[GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS 6.4.3RC2 released

[Helena Mitasova]

On Feb 14, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Michael Barton wrote:

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

but does it work with the latest changes? That was my main concern, Helena

> 
> Michael
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> On Feb 14, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>>> 
>>> Markus M
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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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>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 13, 2013, at 2:20 PM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 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?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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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