Hi all,
Some months ago I checked out the grass6.3 code using svn. Back then
6.3 was still development. I ended up with a grass_trunk directory and
grass63 installed, all happy and fine.
Today I went to the grass_trunk dir, issued svn up and compiled &
installed grass. To my surprise, I now have grass70 and the old
grass63 installed. In order to stay away from the bleeding edge
(grass70) and use 6.3, do I need to check out a new grass directory?
Or is grass7.0 sort of stable?
And how about removing the installed version. I should just delete the
/usr/local/grass-7.0.svn directory and the executable in /usr/bin?
Cheers and many thanks
Daniel
Daniel Victoria wrote:
Some months ago I checked out the grass6.3 code using svn.
Back then
6.3 was still development. I ended up with a grass_trunk
directory and grass63 installed, all happy and fine.
Today I went to the grass_trunk dir, issued svn up and
compiled &
installed grass. To my surprise, I now have grass70 and the
old grass63 installed. In order to stay away from the bleeding
edge
(grass70) and use 6.3, do I need to check out a new grass
directory?
Or is grass7.0 sort of stable?
And how about removing the installed version. I should just
delete the
/usr/local/grass-7.0.svn directory and the executable in
/usr/bin?
see the "Switch the repository" section here to change over to the dev branch 6:
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/HowToSVN
and
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/DownloadSource
but if you've already svn up'd to GRASS 7 I don't know if you can go backwards without a fresh checkout.
probably right now the trunk/grass 7 is currently stable to use, but that will not remain the case for long.
Hamish
Hamish wrote:
> Some months ago I checked out the grass6.3 code using svn.
> Back then
> 6.3 was still development. I ended up with a grass_trunk
> directory and grass63 installed, all happy and fine.
>
> Today I went to the grass_trunk dir, issued svn up and
> compiled &
> installed grass. To my surprise, I now have grass70 and the
> old grass63 installed. In order to stay away from the bleeding
> edge
> (grass70) and use 6.3, do I need to check out a new grass
> directory?
> Or is grass7.0 sort of stable?
I suggest switching to the 6.4 branch. Now that 6.3.0 has been
released, 6.3.x is stable (bug-fixes only), while 6.4.x is the
"normal" development branch (i.e. what the trunk was until recently).
7.x is the "radical development" version, where anything is up for
change. Once development actually starts on 7.x, it may quickly become
incompatible with previous versions of GRASS, and may require some
level of skill to even get it to compile.
> And how about removing the installed version. I should just
> delete the
> /usr/local/grass-7.0.svn directory and the executable in
> /usr/bin?
see the "Switch the repository" section here to change over to the dev branch 6:
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/HowToSVN
and
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/DownloadSource
but if you've already svn up'd to GRASS 7 I don't know if you can go
backwards without a fresh checkout.
You can.
svn switch https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/develbranch_6
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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>