[GRASSLIST:3632] Safe to use GRASS 5?

[Roy Sanderson]

Dear Grass-users

I notice that the GRASS website now describes GRASS 5.0 as 'supported' and
GRASS 4.3 as 'unsupported', whereas 4.3 had previously been described as
'current stable'.  Do I take it from this that it is now safe to upgrade to
GRASS 5.0 pre3?  I realise with its pre3 status that it is not 100% stable,
and that a lot of people are working hard to remove remaining bugs.
However, most commercial software isn't stable when sold (or at least
that's my impression judging by the number of patches needed just to get it
running in some cases!).  So should I risk upgrading to 5.0, or await the
release of 'stable' in presumably 6-12 months time?

Many thanks
Roy

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Roy Sanderson
Centre for Life Sciences Modelling
Porter Building
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 191 222 7789
Fax: +44 191 222 6563
r.a.sanderson at newcastle.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/clsm

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