[GRASSweb-list]markus: web/grass5 index.html,1.19,1.20
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Sun Nov 10 08:31:50 EST 2002
Author: markus
Update of /grassrepository/web/grass5
In directory doto:/tmp/cvs-serv12929/grass5
Modified Files:
index.html
Log Message:
further style/contents fixes
Index: index.html
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RCS file: /grassrepository/web/grass5/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.19
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -d -r1.19 -r1.20
--- index.html 10 Nov 2002 00:37:02 -0000 1.19
+++ index.html 10 Nov 2002 13:31:48 -0000 1.20
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<html>
<head>
<DEFANGED_meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
- <DEFANGED_meta name="Author" content="GRASS Development Team">
+ <DEFANGED_meta name="Author" content="Bruce Byars/Markus Neteler/GRASS Development Team">
<DEFANGED_link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../sitestyle.css">
<title> GRASS 5.0 Information and Features </title>
</head>
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
border="0" ALIGN=CENTER></A> GRASS 5.0 Information and Features
</H1>
<A HREF="#general">General Information</A> -
- <A HREF="#info">Current release information</A> -
<A HREF="#manuals">GRASS 5 Manuals</A> -
<A HREF="#bugs">Bug reports | ToDo</A> -
<A HREF="../grassdevel.html">Developers forum</A> -
@@ -32,16 +31,25 @@
<a href=../announces/press_release500.html>Press Release 5. September
2002</a>: First Stable Release - GRASS 5 Free Geographic Information System
<p>
+What's new in <b>current release of GRASS 5.0.0?</b>
+<a href="source/NEWS.html">Read on the detailed NEWS list</a>.
+For details please read the detailed changes <A HREF="source/ChangeLog">HISTORY</a>.
-<b>What's new in GRASS 5.0.0?</b><br> GRASS 5.0.0 represents the first major
-change in GRASS functionality in several years, with the most notable change
-being support for <b>floating point and null values</b>. GRASS also now has
-an improved graphical user interface based on Tcl/Tk. Additionally a new
-multiple attributes/multiple dimensions <b>sites format</b> is implemented,
-a new three dimensional raster format <a href=../grid3d/><b>grid3</b></a>
-(voxel format, only in experimental tree) and first library functions for
-the <b>GRASS DateTime Library</b>. Additionally <a
-href=../gdp/html_grass5/projections.html>122 projections</a> are supported!
+<h2>What's new in GRASS 5.0.0 compared to 4.x?</h2>
+
+GRASS 5.0.0 represents the first major change in GRASS functionality in
+several years, with the most notable change being support for <b>floating
+point and null values</b>. GRASS also now has an improved graphical user
+interface based on Tcl/Tk. Additionally a new multiple attributes/multiple
+dimensions <b>sites format</b> is implemented, a new three dimensional
+raster format <a href=../grid3d/><b>grid3</b></a> (voxel format, only in
+experimental tree) and first library functions for the <b>GRASS DateTime
+Library</b>. Additionally <a href=../gdp/html_grass5/projections.html>122
+projections</a> are supported! Two new visualization interfaces in the form
+of Tcl/Tk GRASS and Nviz. NVIZ allows users to realistically render
+multiple surfaces in 3D space, drape GRASS vector files over surfaces, and
+display sites files either on surfaces or as 3D points. Tcl/Tk GRASS
+provides a platform-independant windowing system for GRASS.
<p><i> <b>Caution</b> - GRASS 5.0 creates different
map layer data formats. GRASS 4.X mapsets are upward compatible with GRASS
@@ -52,56 +60,23 @@
<a href=../announces/announce_lzw_removal.html>See also press release on GRASS raster compression changes</a>.
<p>
-<b>How stable is GRASS 5.0.0?</b><br>
+<h2>How stable is GRASS 5.0.0?</h2>
GRASS 5.0.0 has been tested on Linux, SUN, WindowsNT/2000/XP and Silicon
Graphics Irix systems. Many people use it for daily production. HOWEVER,
-there are likely still some <a href=index.html#bugs>bugs</a> to be worked
+there are likely still some <a href=http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?q_queue=grass>bugs</a> to be worked
out.
-<p>
-<b>Which modules are stored in the binary GRASS 5.0.0 packages?</b><br>
-Please check this <a href=50list_of_modules.html>list</a> here.
+<a name="manuals"></a>
+<h2>GRASS 5.0 documents</h2>
-<hr>
-<a name="info"></A>
-<h2>Current release information</h2>
-What's new in <b>current release of GRASS 5.0.0?</b><br>
-What's new in current version? ... What's new since older versions? Why should I upgrade (again)? <br>
-<a href="source/NEWS.html">Read on the detailed NEWS list</a>.
-For details please read the detailed changes <A HREF="source/ChangeLog">HISTORY</a>.
-The four biggest new features of GRASS 5.0 are:
<ul>
-<li>Programming Changes - GRASS 5.0 has many new features in its programs,
- including support for floating-point numbers and the separation of 0 and
- null.
-<li>New Visualization Interface - Two new visualization interfacesin the
- form of Tcl/Tk GRASS and Nviz. NVIZ allows users to realistically render
- multiple surfaces in 3D space, drape GRASS vector files over surfaces, and
- display sites files either on surfaces or as 3D points. Tcl/Tk GRASS provides
- a platform-independant windowing system for GRASS.
-<li>New 3D raster format (<a href=../grid3d/index.html>grid3D</a>) with 3D-Map-calculator and spline volume
- interpolation.
-<li> tons of bugfixes, improved platform independence, new modules
+<li>GRASS 5.0 manual pages:
+<a href="../gdp/html_grass5/index.html">HTML</a> -
+<a href="manuals/">PDF</a>
+<li><a href="../grassdevel.html#prog">Programmer's manual</a>
</ul>
-<h2>The next version...</h2>
-If you are interested what's currently going on in GRASS 5 development: Read
-the <a href=http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/grass/ONGOING>ONGOING</a> file.
-<br>
-Probably you decide to <a href=../grassdevel.html>join the GRASS Developers
-Team</a>?!
-
-<hr>
-<a name="manuals"></a>
-<h2>GRASS 5 manual pages</h2>
-<a href="../gdp/html_grass5/index.html">GRASS 5 manual HTML pages</a> -
-<a href="manuals/">GRASS 5 manual PDF pages</a>
-<p>
-Draft <a href="../grassdevel.html#prog">GRASS 5 <b>Programming
-instructions</b></a>, see "Related documents" (GRASS 5 API) - (further authors wanted!)
-<hr>
-
<a name="bugs"></A>
<h2>Bug reports</h2>
<menu>
@@ -111,17 +86,8 @@
in this GRASS 5.0.0 version</A>. Your help to fix these bugs is highly appreciated. If you find
a bug, please check the list if it is already known. If not, you are kindly
requested to report the bug(s) to use our new <a href="../bugtracking/bugreport.html">bug report form</a>
-<li>Developers and (new) programmers, please check the <a
- href=http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/grass/TODO>GRASS 5 TODO list</a>!
</menu>
-<b><a href=http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/grass/documents/wanted_algorithm.txt>GRASS 5 Wish list</a></b> - wanted algorithm
-<p>
-<b><a
-href=http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/grass/documents/pretesting_grass.txt>Pretesting GRASS 5
-- step by step</a></b>
-
-<hr>
<a name="cluster"></a>
<h2>Clustered GRASS GIS</h2>
@@ -151,26 +117,20 @@
<li><a href=http://www.tigers.ru/grass_docs/progs/DESCRIPTION.html>Parallelized s.surf.idw (MPI)</a>
</ul>
-<hr>
<a name="credits"></a>
<h2>Credits</h2>
-Please read the new <A HREF="../grasscredits.html">GRASS Credits page</a>
-(not complete yet) - List of <a
-href=http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/grass/AUTHORS>GRASS
-Development Team members</a>!
+
+<A HREF="../grasscredits.html">GRASS Credits page</a> (incomplete) - List of
+<a href=http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/grass/AUTHORS>GRASS
+Development Team members</a>
-<hr>
<a name="download"></a>
<h2>Download</h2>
<b>Ok, ok. How can I get current GRASS 5.0.0 release?</b><p>
First, <a href="../downloadform.html">fill out the download form.</a><p>
Second, go to the <b><a href="../download.html">download page</a></b> and start downloading!<p>
<p>
-If you are interested in the latest
-(partly unstable, but with new features) developers version,<br>
- you can also use <a href="../grasscvs.html">public GRASS CVS repository</a>.
-<p>
<b>Some additional tidbits you may need...</b>
<ul>
<li>TclTkGRASS needs the Tcl and Tk libraries 8.x or later to run
@@ -183,8 +143,8 @@
<li>List of <a href=source/REQUIREMENTS.html>further (partly optional)
GRASS 5 compile requirements</a>
</ul>
-<p>
-<b>Are you programmer?<b><br>
+
+<h2>Are you programmer?</h2>
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