[GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now

[Margherita Di Leo]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Paulo van Breugel <p.vanbreugel at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Probably also
>> > http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/general-overview/#AboutGRASS6
>> > http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/general-overview/#AboutGRASS7
>> >
>> > Should be updated accordingly. (GRASS GIS 7 is under development with a
>> > first releases in preparation)
>> >
>> > Perhaps the "about GRASS6" should become less visible, as now is the
>> first
>> > that meets the eye.
>>
>
>
> Agree, and therefore I would put 'About GRASS GIS 7' first, followed by
> the 'About GRASS GIS 6' paragraph (or leave the latter out altogether).
>
> That paragraph also links to the wikipedia about GRASS should perhaps be
> added to the paragraph 'About GRASS GIS 7' instead (The *GRASS GIS 7* (Wikipedia
> entry <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS>) ...). And there is a
> small typo in that paragraph: A full temporal framwork <- e missing in
> framework.
>
> This btw means the Wikipedia article should be adapted too. I would
> suggest the sentence 'GRASS 6.4.0 introduced a new generation of graphical
> user interface called *wxGUI*. wxGUI is designed using Python
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29>
> programming language and wxPython <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxPython>
> graphical library' should be replaced with the short description, perhaps
> based on the above mentioned 'About GRASS GIS 7' paragraph?, i.e.,
>
> The latest  stable release version (LTS) is GRASS GIS 7, which is
> available since 2015. It offers, amongst others, large data support, an
> improved topological 2D/3D vector engine and much improved vector network
> analysis. Attributes are managed by default in SQLite format. The display
> manager has been improved for usability. The NVIZ visualization tool was
> completely rewritten. Image processing has also been improved. A full
> temporal framework has been added. See more details at New Features
> <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures>.
>

 I agree with all these changes and I would bring the sentence: "GRASS GIS
6.x is the old stable version." as starting sentence of the paragraph GRASS
GIS 6.


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Best regards,

Dr. Margherita DI LEO
Scientific / technical project officer

European Commission - DG JRC
Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
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