[GRASS-dev] [release planning] GRASS GIS 7.8.3

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Anna,

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 3:46 PM Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 4:34 AM Nicklas Larsson <n_larsson at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > On 28 Apr 2020, at 16:01, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > and https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/564 (new wx release breaking stuff) but hopefully that should be relatively easy to fix
>>
>> Some thoughts: maybe we should skip support for wxPython 4.1.0 for the 7.8.3 release? Looking at the draft PR [1] addressing this, albeit not finished, quite a number of changes are required. This should be tested thoroughly, even the most seemingly innocent change can lead to unintended and unexpected bugs. Personally, I'm now quite glad we now -- at long last -- have a working and fairly stable version for mac.

So, let's not merge this PR and move on with 7.8.3.

> Most changes are only in layout flags, these are easy to review and the worst case is the layout may look strange, so I wouldn't worry about this part too much. But I am more worried about the other things I didn't have time to fix yet. For example opening file menu freezes my computer, memory starts allocating. So I at least need more time to figure out the issues. Also testing on other platforms would be great.
>>
>> The questions are how quick will the wxPython 4.1 be established/extensively used (how urgent is the support for it), and for how long are we willing to postpone this 7.8.3 release (for fixing and testing).
>
> AFAICT, 4.1 is default in PyPI so when you install wx that way, you get 4.1. I am not sure at this point, I agree 7.8.3 should get released as soon as possible.
>>
>> Perhaps a solution is to make an imminent GRASS 7.10 release with 4.1 support as suggested elsewhere [2] including the numerous fixes to be made with flake8 and maybe black.

We may consider then to fix master as planned and fork 7.10 from it.
But 7.8.3 first :-)

>> [1] https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/570
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>> [2] https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/543#issuecomment-619229231

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