[GRASS-dev] which branch?

Hi,

I have been using [1] as the version of GRASS that I use on a regular basis. I
see that this version refers to itself as GRASS-7, and uses a new install
target (as opposed to 'grass-6.3.svn').

Would it be wise to track the 'releasebranch_6_3' for a more stable GRASS
experience? Does this version contain everything that 'trunk' had in it as of
about a month ago?

All of this started when I was stuck by the bug associated with [2] .

1. https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk
2. http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/70

As of now I was thinking about keeping one source dir in sync with 6.3 and one
with trunk, so that I have a stable environment, but can still try out the
new features in 7.0 .

Any tips?

Cheers,

--
Dylan Beaudette
Soil Resource Laboratory
http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341

Dylan:

I have been using [1] as the version of GRASS that I use on
a regular basis. I see that this version refers to itself as
GRASS-7, and uses a new install target (as opposed to
'grass-6.3.svn').

Would it be wise to track the 'releasebranch_6_3' for a more stable
GRASS experience? Does this version contain everything that
'trunk' had in it as of about a month ago?

no it is in bug fix only mode. even then 6.3.1 may or may not happen.
grass7 is likely to become unusable for a time.

All of this started when I was stuck by the bug associated with [2] .

1. https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk
2. http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/70

As of now I was thinking about keeping one source dir in
sync with 6.3 and one with trunk, so that I have a stable
environment, but can still try out the new features in 7.0 .

Any tips?

yeah, use 'develbranch_6' instead of trunk or 'releasebranch_6_3'.

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/DownloadSource#GRASS6.4

Hamish