[GRASS-dev] Which GRASS version to install in a university Lab?

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Dear devs, and power-users,

which GRASS GIS version would you recommend for a University Lab with 40 computers? Stay with 6.4 or jump into 7.0 RC2? I recommended to wait some time as important changes may be backported from trunk to 7.0, just before the final release.

Thank you, Nikos

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Hi,

2015-02-12 11:06 GMT+01:00 Nikos Alexandris <nik@nikosalexandris.net>:

which GRASS GIS version would you recommend for a University Lab with 40
computers? Stay with 6.4 or jump into 7.0 RC2? I recommended to wait
some time as important changes may be backported from trunk to 7.0, just
before the final release.

I would recommend 7.0.0RC2 if you cannot postpone installation.

Martin

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Ciao Nikos,

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On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Nikos Alexandris <nik@nikosalexandris.net> wrote:

Dear devs, and power-users,

which GRASS GIS version would you recommend for a University Lab with 40 computers? Stay with 6.4 or jump into 7.0 RC2? I recommended to wait some time as important changes may be backported from trunk to 7.0, just before the final release.

From my experience as a user, G7 has improved dramatically respect to 6, in new functionalities but especially for the capacity of handling large data sets.

cheers,
madi

Thank you, Nikos

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On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola@gmail.com>
wrote:

Ciao Nikos,

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Nikos Alexandris <
nik@nikosalexandris.net> wrote:

Dear devs, and power-users,

which GRASS GIS version would you recommend for a University Lab with 40
computers? Stay with 6.4 or jump into 7.0 RC2? I recommended to wait
some time as important changes may be backported from trunk to 7.0, just
before the final release.

From my experience as a user, G7 has improved dramatically respect to 6,
in new functionalities but especially for the capacity of handling large
data sets.

I agree with the above, G7 is such an improvement in terms of features and
general improvements that there is really no reason to stay with G6. What
advantage would keeping G6.4 have?

cheers,
madi

Thank you, Nikos

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Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
Via Fermi, 2749
I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261

Tel. +39 0332 78 3600
margherita.di-leo@jrc.ec.europa.eu

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On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Nikos Alexandris
<nik@nikosalexandris.net> wrote:

Dear devs, and power-users,

which GRASS GIS version would you recommend for a University Lab with 40
computers? Stay with 6.4 or jump into 7.0 RC2? I recommended to wait
some time as important changes may be backported from trunk to 7.0, just
before the final release.

Nikos: which important backports do you expect to be done? I don't see much at

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7Planning#a7.0.0finalplanned:15Feb2015

Theoretically we are releasing tomorrow.

Markus

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Nikos Alexandris:

Dear devs, and power-users,
which GRASS GIS version would you recommend for a University Lab with 40
computers? Stay with 6.4 or jump into 7.0 RC2? I recommended to wait
some time as important changes may be backported from trunk to 7.0, just
before the final release.

Markus Neteler:

Nikos: which important backports do you expect to be done? I don't see much at

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7Planning#a7.0.0finalplanned:15Feb2015
Theoretically we are releasing tomorrow.

On important reason: I couldn't follow-up all discussions concerning the re-design of GRASS' welcome screen (not only the Awesome splash -- million thanks for this one Vincent). Since it's about a university lab for students to be introduced in GRASS, I was thinking that it is best to just wait some time.

The "intro" is the most significant thing, imho, in GRASS, for users with zero GRASSy background.

Thanks, Nikos

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On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Nikos Alexandris
<nik@nikosalexandris.net> wrote:
...

On important reason: I couldn't follow-up all discussions concerning the
re-design of GRASS' welcome screen (not only the Awesome splash -- million
thanks for this one Vincent). Since it's about a university lab for
students to be introduced in GRASS, I was thinking that it is best to just
wait some time.

The "intro" is the most significant thing, imho, in GRASS, for users with
zero GRASSy background.

Fully agreed. But given the discussion we'll not change much any more
for the final release of 7.0.0.
We can give it an extra touch in 7.0.1 for example.

So, I would definitely not recommend GRASS GIS 6 to them, for these
many reasons:
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures

Best
Markus