[GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS 6.2.1 released

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GRASS GIS releases version 6.2.1
12 December 2006
http://grass.itc.it

GRASS 6.2.1 is a new stable release which fixes several bugs discovered in
the 6.2.0 source code. This release is solely for stability purposes and adds
no new features. Besides bug fixes it also includes a number of new message
translations, updates for the help pages, and will better handle errors
caused by missing or incorrectly installed support software. It also
introduces a new 3D raster module which was left out of the last release
due to time constraints.

Full story at http://grass.itc.it/announces/announce_grass621.html

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Good going Markus. This must be some kind of record. How many stable
releases have there been this year already?

Michael

On 12/12/06 2:22 PM, "Markus Neteler" <neteler@itc.it> wrote:

GRASS GIS releases version 6.2.1
12 December 2006
http://grass.itc.it

GRASS 6.2.1 is a new stable release which fixes several bugs discovered in
the 6.2.0 source code. This release is solely for stability purposes and adds
no new features. Besides bug fixes it also includes a number of new message
translations, updates for the help pages, and will better handle errors
caused by missing or incorrectly installed support software. It also
introduces a new 3D raster module which was left out of the last release
due to time constraints.

Full story at http://grass.itc.it/announces/announce_grass621.html

__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

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Michael,

everything is well documented here:
http://grass.itc.it/
-> Intro (top menu)
-> History (left menu)
      http://grass.itc.it/devel/grasshist.html
-> Releases (left menu)
      http://grass.itc.it/devel/grassreleases.html

We started the year 2006 with 6.0.2RC2, followed by RC3, RC4, then
6.0.2 in February (so 1st official), three 6.1.x releases as
technology preview, 6.2.0beta1, beta2, RC1-RC3, then
6.2.0 end of October, 6.2.1RC1 and now 6.2.1!
We are well experienced now and have meanwhile a functional
release cycle. The release tarball preparation plus Web site
update takes me now only 30 minutes, for major releases
I post around press releases which takes 2 hours to fill
all the various forms.

Outstanding problems are documented in the Wiki:
http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_6.2_Feature_Plan#TODO_for_6.2.2

Altogether, this only works due to the great feedback of
the power users (and "normal" users of course) to the
developers and the growing group of developers.

To answer your question: 6.0.2 and 6.2.0/6.2.1 in this year.

cheers
Markus

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:47:47PM -0700, Michael Barton wrote:

Good going Markus. This must be some kind of record. How many stable
releases have there been this year already?

Michael

On 12/12/06 2:22 PM, "Markus Neteler" <neteler@itc.it> wrote:

> GRASS GIS releases version 6.2.1
> 12 December 2006
> http://grass.itc.it
>
> GRASS 6.2.1 is a new stable release which fixes several bugs discovered in
> the 6.2.0 source code. This release is solely for stability purposes and adds
> no new features. Besides bug fixes it also includes a number of new message
> translations, updates for the help pages, and will better handle errors
> caused by missing or incorrectly installed support software. It also
> introduces a new 3D raster module which was left out of the last release
> due to time constraints.
>
> Full story at http://grass.itc.it/announces/announce_grass621.html
>
>

__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

--
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ITC-irst - Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
MPBA - Predictive Models for Biol. & Environ. Data Analysis
Via Sommarive, 18 - 38050 Povo (Trento), Italy

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Cool. I'll take a break from my GRASS Xcode project and package up a Mac OS X app.

On Dec 12, 2006, at 3:22 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:

GRASS GIS releases version 6.2.1
12 December 2006
http://grass.itc.it

GRASS 6.2.1 is a new stable release which fixes several bugs discovered in
the 6.2.0 source code. This release is solely for stability purposes and adds
no new features. Besides bug fixes it also includes a number of new message
translations, updates for the help pages, and will better handle errors
caused by missing or incorrectly installed support software. It also
introduces a new 3D raster module which was left out of the last release
due to time constraints.

Full story at http://grass.itc.it/announces/announce_grass621.html

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Moritz Lennert wrote:

If you want to have access to GRASS commands in windows, you best bet
at this stage is to either wait for wingrass to be stabilized (which
I don't think will take very long any more),

Any support for tagging a quick 6.3.0 development-preview release when
this happens? (ie not until ~3 weeks after windows development slows
down to a trickle) This release would be slightly less alpha-ware versus
basing it on an arbitrary CVS snapshot.

Like 6.1.0, the release wouldn't be supported or have its own future.

Hamish

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On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:41:46PM +1300, Hamish wrote:

Moritz Lennert wrote:
> If you want to have access to GRASS commands in windows, you best bet
> at this stage is to either wait for wingrass to be stabilized (which
> I don't think will take very long any more),

Any support for tagging a quick 6.3.0 development-preview release when
this happens? (ie not until ~3 weeks after windows development slows
down to a trickle) This release would be slightly less alpha-ware versus
basing it on an arbitrary CVS snapshot.

Like 6.1.0, the release wouldn't be supported or have its own future.

I am in favor of tagging a 6.3.0 development-preview release.
We should do that this week, however.

Markus

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On 18/12/06 11:50, Markus Neteler wrote:

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:41:46PM +1300, Hamish wrote:

Moritz Lennert wrote:

If you want to have access to GRASS commands in windows, you best bet
at this stage is to either wait for wingrass to be stabilized (which
I don't think will take very long any more),

Any support for tagging a quick 6.3.0 development-preview release when
this happens? (ie not until ~3 weeks after windows development slows
down to a trickle) This release would be slightly less alpha-ware versus
basing it on an arbitrary CVS snapshot.

Like 6.1.0, the release wouldn't be supported or have its own future.

I am in favor of tagging a 6.3.0 development-preview release.
We should do that this week, however.

For me the major showstoppers in wingrass currently are (see other mails for details):

- dbmi protocol errors making any work with vector attribute data impossible
- location creation at start-up problems

IMHO, most other issues are probably acceptable for a dev-preview release, but these two should probably be solved before publishing a native windows version.

Moritz