[GRASS-user] to move or not move ? grass64 <- ? -> 7.0

[Markus Metz]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/01/13 22:28, Markus Metz wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 03:59:49PM -0200, Milton Cezar Ribeiro wrote:
>>>> Thanks Rashad,
>>>>
>>>> I understand that grass 7 have a lot of new features (or improved/fixed ones), including
>>>> the powerful contribution of python. But I would like to hear from grass7 users about how
>>>> stable are this version. Anyone survive using only  grass7 our we need to switch between
>>>> them?
>>>
>>> I have seen quite a bit of bugs in grass 7, but the GRASS developpers are very quick to fix a
>>> correctly reported bug.
>>
>> Some of the bugs reported by you were really helpful to improve new functionality in GRASS 7.
>> GRASS developers actually depend on this kind of feedback, and the more power-users use GRASS 7
>> and report any bugs, the better. In general, I estimate that GRASS 7 (on the command line) is
>> as robust, but if in doubt faster and less resource intensive than GRASS 6.
>>
>> Some of the bugs reported by you apply to GRASS 6 only, are fixed in GRASS 7 and can not be
>> backported to GRASS 6 because the required changes would break GRASS 6 compatibility.
>>
>> Other bugs that were present in GRASS 6 + 7 are only fixed in GRASS 7 and may or may not be
>> backported to GRASS 6.
>>
>> Obviously I am advocating the use of GRASS 7, but for production work I would, like Paolo,
>> recommend to have GRASS 6 on the side.
>
> Following the discussion, I would like to install GRASS 7 weekly snapshot. I relized the "Binary"
> link (http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/) but it points back to the Linux Download page,
> but I could not find any binaries there for GRASS 7? Maybe this link should be removed?

The binaries are here

http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/binary/linux/snapshot/
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass65/binary/linux/snapshot/
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/binary/linux/snapshot/

The corresponding links should be updated.

Markus M
>
> Just wondering, but not a problem, as I am going to install from source anyway.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rainer
>
>>
>> As a GRASS developer, I personally use only GRASS 7 for production work.
>>
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