[GRASS-user] grass70 and display monitor

[Vincent Bain]

Hamish,
you're right, anyone can still freely use former but stable versions of
Grass (like Jan does with grass5 for digitizing) for his particular
purposes.
Looking towards future I just figure out it's high time I began learning
python ;-)

Anyway, thank you all for this interesting discussion,

Vincent.


Le samedi 05 décembre 2009 à 02:51 -0800, Hamish a écrit :
> Vincent wrote:
> > I praised him that developing his
> > future personalized solutions on GRASS would be a guarantee
> > of long-lasting, reliabilty, and so on... oops !
> 
> 
> backwards compatibility since grass 6.0.0 in March 2005 is no mistake.
> it suggests that any code written for grass 7 will work for a similar time
> frame. and there is nothing stopping anyone from running grass 6.x well
> into the future, or continue with grass 5.4 for that matter.
> 
> to limit ourselves from any change would guarantee obsolescence. the
> great trick is to compress all that good change into a single instant
> which are far appart, rather than to allow continual change with no
> stability.
>  
> 
> regards,
> Hamish
> 
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