[GRASS-dev] [release planning] 7.6.0

[Moritz Lennert]

On 29/08/18 03:10, Vaclav Petras wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 5:52 PM Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org 
> <mailto:neteler at osgeo.org>> wrote:
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>  > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 4:14 PM Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kratochanna at gmail.com>> wrote:
>  > ...
>  > > It still works for me, there are 2 patches for ctypes,
>  >
>  > Ah, I had overlooked that.
>  >
>  > > I use the  patch_ctypes_changes_from_fork.diff
>  > > that might be the issue you have. But I agree it needs to be merged 
> soon.
>  >
>  > Funny suggestion: we make a branch on the github mirror :)
>  > Might simplify testing...
> 
> My guess is that it may complicate other things. Let's just branch 7.6 
> in Subversion and apply the patches to trunk afterwards. Anna's 
> suggestion of a quick 7.8 release with Python 3 support makes sense. I'm 
> just afraid that this might create big time gap between 7.8 and 8.0. 

For many projects, moving to Python 3 justifies a jump to next major 
version...

Moritz