[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.4.3 release planning

[epi]

i can provide feedback in testing 6.4.x running with wx2.9, 
if you have any kind of patch that i can apply and test 
i'll be happy to try it

thanks!

Il giorno 05/giu/2013, alle ore 06:16, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> ha scritto:

> status update time,
> 
> the main two remaining from my perspective are GRASS_PYTHON
> in env.bat and the d.mon Cairo lockup from wxGUI.
> 
> i.e. not much.
> 
> 
> perhaps wx2.9 + Mac if there is movement on it, if stalled
> go without it.
> 
> 
> 
>> #1428: still some missing some dlls
> 
> We'll have to wait and see how many people complain about
> missing msvcr80.dll and msvcr90.dll, and direct them to the
> .NET Frameworks package. But it should be fewer than before..
> 
> Users stuck behind a proxy server may still have a bad time
> trying to download the MS runtimes. NSIS expert needed to
> solve that one. (a real issue for students at my univ., but
> not a general blocker IMO)
> 
> moving on,
> 
> 
>> #943: selecting cairo rendering locks up the wxGUI
> 
> After the gui code runs 'd.mon start=cairo' it locks up and
> you need to use `xkill` to recover.
> 
> I suspect it's some simple waiting for a pipe to close after
> a stderr message or so in the wxGUI's custom RunCommand()
> python function, but it's not my area of expertise so help
> needed.
> 
> If it won't be fixed in the final release we should grey out the
> option, but with all the other bugs around that now fixed it
> feels so very close to being solved......
> 
> 
> 
>> use full path to GRASS's python.exe in env.bat
> 
> keeps coming up, so seems important & simple to do.
> 
> 
> 
>> #1971: r.in.bin: fix LFS support in G_ftell()
> 
> done, ready to go. (I hope)
> 
> 
> 
>> #1849: g.proj datum transforms broken for epsg and proj4 terms
>> #1967: wxPy loc'n wiz: doesn't allow ellipsoid without datum
> 
> both done, ready to go. (I hope)
> lesser issues moved to new tickets targeted at 6.4.4.
> 
> 
>> #1952: package 'more.exe' with msys (pager for g.list)
>>        (also +tac.exe +seq.exe +xml2.exe and
>>> #1275 (about zip.exe)
>> --what controls what unix powertools are packaged
>> in extrabin/?
> 
> ?
> 
> zip is there, but unzip (for r.in.srtm) is not.
> 
> xml2.exe makes a big difference for r.in.wms[.sh] which
> *now works on wingrass* (!!) / except for the xml2 :)
> 
> seq we could live without but it is nice.
> same for tac, we work around it missing for Mac as well.
> 
> but if we figure out how to add one binary we could easily
> add them all.
> 
> 
>> #854: building addons on Mac
> 
> there was some progress in the last week, what was the outcome?
> 
> 
>> It seems we should also add discussion of wx2.9 + mac to this
>> todo or not todo list, and get that into devbr6 ASAP for the
>> trial and error.
> 
> if it is not happening now, maybe release a quick 6.4.4 as soon
> as that's ready.
> 
> 
>> #: go through changelog for "new and fix" bullet points, add to trac wiki page
>> #: write the 6.4.3 release announcement and press release
> 
> todo.
> 
> 
> regards,
> Hamish
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