[GRASS5] Let's publish GRASS 5beta9 tomorrow (wednesday 6. Dec. 2000)

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Let's publish GRASS 5beta9 tomorrow (wednesday 6. Dec. 2000)!

Are there any objections?

Justin will check in a fix for the graphical startup (hopefully
in the Thai morning time) so that I can cvs-tag the sources in afternoon
(German time). This leaves a full working day for our Asian colleagues.

We need these binaries:
- Linux (I can do that and/or Bernhard builds RPMs
- SGI/Irix: volunteer
- Solaris/SUN: volunteer
- Solaris/Intel (?, not sure): volunteers
- Mac OS X: volunteers
- ?

I would like to announce with a sort of press release to be published
on GIS-related forums. If you have time, you may throw together some text
and post it here. Then we merge it to a nice announcement.

--
Proposal for GRASS 5.0 stable: Let's schedule the release for the first days
of January 2001 (to allow work on 5.1). I hope that we get all left bugs
fixed until January 2001 (or decide to comment/drop selected modules). So we
could welcome the year 2001 with a stable release of GRASS 5!

The LZW-removal in raster/g3d lib should be part of GRASS 5.0 stable (so we
need testers for the next weeks).

Feel free to comment these proposals as usual,

Markus

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Lets do it.

I'll make solaris and solaris intel binaries

Bruce

Markus Neteler wrote:

Let's publish GRASS 5beta9 tomorrow (wednesday 6. Dec. 2000)!

Are there any objections?

Justin will check in a fix for the graphical startup (hopefully
in the Thai morning time) so that I can cvs-tag the sources in afternoon
(German time). This leaves a full working day for our Asian colleagues.

We need these binaries:
- Linux (I can do that and/or Bernhard builds RPMs
- SGI/Irix: volunteer
- Solaris/SUN: volunteer
- Solaris/Intel (?, not sure): volunteers
- Mac OS X: volunteers
- ?

I would like to announce with a sort of press release to be published
on GIS-related forums. If you have time, you may throw together some text
and post it here. Then we merge it to a nice announcement.

--
Proposal for GRASS 5.0 stable: Let's schedule the release for the first days
of January 2001 (to allow work on 5.1). I hope that we get all left bugs
fixed until January 2001 (or decide to comment/drop selected modules). So we
could welcome the year 2001 with a stable release of GRASS 5!

The LZW-removal in raster/g3d lib should be part of GRASS 5.0 stable (so we
need testers for the next weeks).

Feel free to comment these proposals as usual,

Markus

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On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:15:45PM -0600, B. Byars wrote:

Lets do it.

I'll make solaris and solaris intel binaries

Bruce

Please note: The binaries have to be done from the tagged
versioon only to release "identical" beta9 version.
I'll post again after tagging.

Markus

Markus Neteler wrote:

> Let's publish GRASS 5beta9 tomorrow (wednesday 6. Dec. 2000)!
>
> Are there any objections?
>
> Justin will check in a fix for the graphical startup (hopefully
> in the Thai morning time) so that I can cvs-tag the sources in afternoon
> (German time). This leaves a full working day for our Asian colleagues.
>
> We need these binaries:
> - Linux (I can do that and/or Bernhard builds RPMs
> - SGI/Irix: volunteer
> - Solaris/SUN: volunteer
> - Solaris/Intel (?, not sure): volunteers
> - Mac OS X: volunteers
> - ?
>
> I would like to announce with a sort of press release to be published
> on GIS-related forums. If you have time, you may throw together some text
> and post it here. Then we merge it to a nice announcement.
>
> --
> Proposal for GRASS 5.0 stable: Let's schedule the release for the first days
> of January 2001 (to allow work on 5.1). I hope that we get all left bugs
> fixed until January 2001 (or decide to comment/drop selected modules). So we
> could welcome the year 2001 with a stable release of GRASS 5!
>
> The LZW-removal in raster/g3d lib should be part of GRASS 5.0 stable (so we
> need testers for the next weeks).
>
> Feel free to comment these proposals as usual,
>
> Markus
>
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Institute of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology
Schneiderberg 50 * D-30167 Hannover * Germany
Tel: ++49-(0)511-762-4494 Fax: -3984

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Hi Markus

Markus Neteler wrote:

Let's publish GRASS 5beta9 tomorrow (wednesday 6. Dec. 2000)!

Are there any objections?

Justin will check in a fix for the graphical startup (hopefully
in the Thai morning time) so that I can cvs-tag the sources in
afternoon (German time). This leaves a full working day for our Asian
colleagues.

I'll try. :slight_smile:

We need these binaries:
- Linux (I can do that and/or Bernhard builds RPMs
- SGI/Irix: volunteer

Count me in for IRIX. And the grass 5 stable proposal sounds good to me.

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Sincerely,

Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey) e-mail: jhickey@hpcc.nectec.or.th
High Performance Computing Center
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
Bangkok, Thailand

People who think they know everything are very irritating to those
of us who do. ---Anonymous

Jazz and Trek Rule!!!

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Hi all,

it's done :slight_smile:
After fixing another Makefile.in bug detected by Huidae Cho and
updating the src/CMD/VERSION the sources are tagged as

GRASS 5 beta 9: tagged as "release_grass5beta9_6_december_2000"

To checkout a specific tagged version, run:
cvs -z3 co -r "release_grass5beta9_6_december_2000" grass

For your convenience you (the binary builders) may download
the source package from here:
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/grass5/source/

Dear developers, this is another moment to say "thank you"
for all your work on GRASS! I am still impressed about the
speed of development. It looks for a prosperous year 2001
for the next major release of GRASS. The finalizing of the
5.0stable should be "a snap" comparing to the work already
done in 2000!

GRASS GIS has been pushed forward and attracts already many
new users. Hope we will continue to follow this road.

Kind regards

Markus

--
Dipl.-Geogr. Markus Neteler * University of Hannover
Institute of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology
Schneiderberg 50 * D-30167 Hannover * Germany
Tel: ++49-(0)511-762-4494 Fax: -3984

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Building Solaris binaries now. I'm building on Solaris 2.6 for the
greatest compatability with the Sun usrs and Solaris 7intel as well.
I'll produce both the standard Markus-scrip-installable package
and a Sun standard binary package that uses the pkgadd command.
Will advise when they're up.

Bruce

Markus Neteler wrote:

Hi all,

it's done :slight_smile:
After fixing another Makefile.in bug detected by Huidae Cho and
updating the src/CMD/VERSION the sources are tagged as

GRASS 5 beta 9: tagged as "release_grass5beta9_6_december_2000"

To checkout a specific tagged version, run:
cvs -z3 co -r "release_grass5beta9_6_december_2000" grass

For your convenience you (the binary builders) may download
the source package from here:
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/grass5/source/

Dear developers, this is another moment to say "thank you"
for all your work on GRASS! I am still impressed about the
speed of development. It looks for a prosperous year 2001
for the next major release of GRASS. The finalizing of the
5.0stable should be "a snap" comparing to the work already
done in 2000!

GRASS GIS has been pushed forward and attracts already many
new users. Hope we will continue to follow this road.

Kind regards

Markus

--
Dipl.-Geogr. Markus Neteler * University of Hannover
Institute of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology
Schneiderberg 50 * D-30167 Hannover * Germany
Tel: ++49-(0)511-762-4494 Fax: -3984

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On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:53:19AM -0600, B. Byars wrote:

Building Solaris binaries now. I'm building on Solaris 2.6 for the
greatest compatability with the Sun usrs and Solaris 7intel as well.
I'll produce both the standard Markus-scrip-installable package
and a Sun standard binary package that uses the pkgadd command.
Will advise when they're up.

Hi all,

unfortunately I found a bug in "bindist" target. But it is fixed
and retagged.

Find the *new* sources at:

> Bereich Geographie – Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät – Leibniz Universität Hannover

or change in Makefile (bindist target) all PREFIX to GISBASE.
Only this file was modified.

Sorry, but all this prefix, GISBASE, exec_brefix etc. stuff is a pain!

Binary builders, some hints:

To exclude PostgreSQL support, run
./configure --enable-postgres=no
make install
make bindist

The "make bindist" creates the binary package for you (only with above
update): You'll find the binary-tar.gz in $GISBASE and the
"grass5install.sh" script in sources main directory.

Put this new "grass5install.sh" along with the binaries!

There is also: --enable-opengl=no

Special thanks to Eric Miller to make this possible!

Regards

Markus

(uploading Linux bins now)

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Markus
and everybody:
  Congratulations for getting the new beta out!
  This is great.

  Intevation will starting building GNU/Linux i386 and ppc rpms soon.

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:02:58PM +0000, Markus Neteler wrote:

unfortunately I found a bug in "bindist" target. But it is fixed
and retagged.

Find the *new* sources at:
> > http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/grass5/source/

or change in Makefile (bindist target) all PREFIX to GISBASE.
Only this file was modified.

Markus:
Usually you should refrain from chancing the tarball once it has a
number and is released. Once somebody go it, you need to give another number.

Therefore, if you find real urgend problems in beta9, just release a
quick beta10. This seems to be the right thing [tm].

Regards,
  Bernhard

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FSF Europe (www.fsfeurope.org)

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On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:12:31AM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

Markus
and everybody:
  Congratulations for getting the new beta out!
  This is great.

  Intevation will starting building GNU/Linux i386 and ppc rpms soon.

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:02:58PM +0000, Markus Neteler wrote:
> unfortunately I found a bug in "bindist" target. But it is fixed
> and retagged.
>
> Find the *new* sources at:
> > > Bereich Geographie – Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät – Leibniz Universität Hannover
>
> or change in Makefile (bindist target) all PREFIX to GISBASE.
> Only this file was modified.

Markus:
Usually you should refrain from chancing the tarball once it has a
number and is released. Once somebody go it, you need to give another number.

Therefore, if you find real urgend problems in beta9, just release a
quick beta10. This seems to be the right thing [tm].

Bernhard,

I agree. Again I learned we have to be more careful and need more
beta (pre?) testers - compare my other mail on install script.

GRASS is pretty complex :slight_smile:

Markus

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