[GRASS-dev] osgeo4w package for GRASS 7

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

wenzeslaus wrote
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Martin Landa <

> landa.martin@

> >
> wrote:
> 
>> 2015-02-21 17:49 GMT+01:00 Martin Landa <

> landa.martin@

> >:
>> >> Except for grass6-dev: does it really make sense to still publish a
>> -dev
>> >> version of grass6 ? In my thinking we will be in pure bug fixing mode
>> for
>> >> grass6 once grass7 is out. I would actually plead to reduce to one
>> grass6
>> >> branch on trac with bug-fixes only for that branch and bug-fix
>> releases
>> just
>> >> being tags of that branch.
>> >
>> > make sense to me. Martin
>>
>> to summarize OSGeo4W proposal:
>>
>> * `grass` will be 7.0.0
>> * `grass6` will be 6.4.4 (hopefully soon 6.4.5)
>> * `grass-svn` will be 7.0.1svn (*)
>> * `grass-trunk-svn` will be 7.1svn
>> * `grass64-dev` will be removed
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> (*) `dev` is really misleading here, so `svn` or `daily` (`svn` sounds
>> more technical).
> 
> 
> I don't like svn in package names. Daily expresses much better what it is.
> It is not the current state of svn, it is a daily build. With leaving out
> the daily builds of current release branch (now 70), it would be just:
> 
> * `grass` - latest stable release
> * `grass6` - latest stable release of 6.x series
> * `grass-daily` - daily build of trunk
> 
> In my suggestion I suppose that we don't need to package daily builds of
> current release branch (now 70). However, I'm not sure how to deal with
> betas and RCs. Should they be also accessible just through standalone
> installer? Or are they considered as "latest stable release" and thus for
> example, 7.0.1RC1 would replace 7.0.0 in package `grass`?
> 
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why not just retire OSGeo4W-grass6 after grass 7.0.1 will be released?

IMHO regarding testing/improving g7 by devs _and_ users, it's better to have
relbranch7 dailys ready in OSGeo4W than fading out grass6.



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