[GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS 6.4.3RC2 released

[Michael Barton]

Just tested GRASS 6.4 release branch.

Both TclTk and wxPython work the same. They display the volumes at some resolutions and crash at others.

Michael
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Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University
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On Feb 14, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> 
> 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
>> ______________________________
>> C. Michael Barton 
>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Arizona State University
>> Tempe, AZ  85287-2402
>> USA
>> 
>> voice: 	480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC)
>> fax:          480-965-7671(SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC)
>> www: 	http://csdc.asu.edu, http://shesc.asu.edu
>> 		http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
>> 
>> 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
>>>>> 
>>>>> voice:  480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC)
>>>>> fax:          480-965-7671 (SHESC),  480-727-0709 (CSDC)
>>>>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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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