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

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 11/01/13 10:41, Markus Metz wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com> wrote: 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.

Thanks,

Rainer


> 
>> 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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> 

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