[GRASS-dev] osgeo4w package for GRASS 7

[Yann Chemin]

> On Feb 22, 2015, at 3:48 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik at web.de> wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

+1

> 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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