Try 4.2.1 (was: 4.3 binaries for linux?)

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi GRASS community,
Bruce mailed me personally and suggested that I retract the statement
that 4.3 was done without Markus' involvement.

I do not know in how far Markus really was involved in releasing 4.3 and
open statements are hard to get. 

From my perspective it still looks like 4.3 is not supported 
by Markus in the same manner as he supported 4.2.1. 
Linux binaries e.g. are still missing.  
Additionally 4.2.1 has undergone a lot more testing.

I have not seen many coding efforts from Baylor in GRASS 5.0 either.
Baylor promissed computer resources to the GRASS developers 
which never came. The sun workstation they provided was useless for
GRASS development or developers' webpages.

I do not know what Baylor did for GRASS in the past, but they
have not been doing much in the last year as far as I can tell.
Except for doing webpages which were out of date until lately.

Sorry for ranting today, but I just had to spell it out.
	Bernhard


On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 04:07:54PM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 08:34:32AM -0500, Glen Gunsalus wrote:
> > There don't seem to be 4.3 binaries for linux in any of the usual
> > places.  Can anyone give me pointers to such?  RH6.1 if it matters.
> 
> Well I do not know about 4.3 binaries.
> 4.2.1 is very stable and tested. 4.3 is not tested that well.
> 4.3 was created without involvement of the 4.2.x version coordinator (Markus).
> 4.3 source code AFAIK is only supported by the Baylor group since then.
> 
> > I've downloaded CVS of 5beta and compiled without problem on Solaris
> > 2.6 and RH6.1  Kudos to the development team.
> > 
> > There are several routines in 4.3 I need for a current project that are
> > not yet implemented in 5beta, and the compile of 4.3 is a bit
> > problematic, both on Solaris and linux, thus, the desire for binary
> > version.
> 
> Try 4.2.1 and tell us what the problem is, it might have a higher chance
> of getting solved. If you need improvements the 5.0beta version is the
> way to go.
> 	Bernhard

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