[GRASS-dev] [GRASS-SVN] r60054

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Markus Metz
<markus.metz.giswork at gmail.com> wrote:
> Glynn Clements wrote:
...
>> If so, I suggest changing that, however invasive it may be.
>
> Very invasive.
>
>> I'd
>> certainly suggest holding off on any 7.0 release until that's
>> resolved.
>
> Hmm. This sounds like synchronizing some basic concepts of the raster
> and vector libraries, which in turn sounds like something for GRASS 8.

IMHO yes.

> GRASS 7 is IMHO in pretty good shape right now, lots of new features,
> faster, global LFS, etc. And GRASS 7 is not new, it is actually many
> years old. Therefore I would rather like to see get 7 released soon
> and synchronize raster and vector libs in GRASS 8.

+1

> For example,
> something I am really missing in GRASS raster data is the history of
> GRASS vector data. Also some more raster metadata like number of
> non-null cells, mean and stddev (see GDAL) would be really helpful.
> Not to mention the organization of raster file storage: have one
> raster folder like for vector.

Just for fun: ideas may be collected in this new trac page:

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass8Planning
:-)

markusN