[GRASS-dev] GRASS 8 addons

Ondřej Pešek pesej.ondrek at gmail.com
Sat Sep 4 00:23:56 PDT 2021


Hey you lovely devs,

In some GRASS modules (e.g. v.db.select), there were certain changes
altering their interface between GRASS GIS 7 and the messianic GRASS GIS 8.
My question is - how to deal with that in the addons?

Currently, there is no GRASS 8 branch in the addons repo. Is there a plan
to create one, or are the changes considered too minor to open a new branch
for that? These changes probably do not affect a lot of addons, but there
are some, and we should approach them minorities with the same solicitude
and concernment as we do with the majorities.

Another solution is having some version checks in the GRASS 7 branch. But
personally, I do not support this idea as it seems weird to me to have an
if statement "if grass.__version__ > 7" in a code that is explicitly
defined as designated for GRASS 7.

Keep that GRASS growing strong,
Ondrej
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