[GRASS-user] Compare GRASS versions

[Hamish]

Jenny:
> > So the main reason for still supporting GRASS 6.4 is
> > its stability right?

"still"?  we haven't even released it yet! :)

> > For instance, do you plan to launch 6.5 as a end-product?

Martin:
> I think that GRASS 6.5 probably will be released (as technical
> preview)

At this time my 2c would rather discourage considering that for another
year. (fwiw I am not very excited about releasing binary snapshots of the
development versions either)

> - some enhancements, and mainly improved wxGUI.
> wxGUI in 6.4 is frozen for few months, wxGUI from 6.5 is still
> synchronized with GRASS 7.0 wxGUI.

so let's backport the best of the updated GUI for 6.4.1 ... although I am
not at all in favour of backporting changes en masse.


> But it doesn't mean that there will be 6.6 as stable
> version. The related question is when GRASS 7.0 will be out
> (one/two years?)

please let's concentrate our efforts on 1 very stable version, 1
development version, and 1 backporting sandbox for testing. otherwise
new development effort remains unfocused and slow and grass 7.0 takes
>2 years instead of <2 years.


cheers,
Hamish