[GRASS5] New GRASS 5 beta5j - take this for release

Dear developers,

the "final call for updates" for the next release of
GRASS was successfull, I received numerous bugfixes
yesterday and today! Special thanks to Bill Hughes,
Luca and Angus for their contributions the last days.
Of course thousand thanks to all others spending (but
not wasting!) their time on GRASS development.

Here comes the updated summary. In my opinion we
can/should publish now. Bruce, can you create again
binaries for Solaris2.6 and Solaris7/intel? You should
download again due to numerous updates.
http://hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de/users/neteler/grass5beta/
-> current
(it is beta5j now)
Read the HISTORY.txt for details.

What's new in GRASS 5 beta5 against former beta4? (7. Dec. 1999)

added modules
- i.tape.slc (Olaf Hellwich)
- i.in.gtc (Olaf Hellwich)
- i.in.pri (Olaf Hellwich)
- r.out.arc (Markus Neteler)
- r.meta, g.meta, v.meta (Sue Huse?)
- r.sun (Jaro Hofierka)
- r.surf.fractal (Jo Wood)
- r.surf.gauss (Jo Wood)
- r.univar (Markus Neteler)
- s.reclass (Sue Huse)
- v.plant (S. Cox)

source code:
- 64bit platform detection routine which changes (Luca Palmeri)
   LNG_SIZ from 4 to 8 in case of 64bit architecture
   (file src/mapdev/diglib/portable.h)
- improved prototyping etc. (Bill Hughes)

bugfixes:
- g.region (Luca Palmeri)
- d.colors (cursor movement) (Markus Neteler)
- d.sites (Markus Neteler)
- i.in.erdas (Angus Carr)
- i.oif (Markus Neteler)
- i.rectify (Luca Palmeri)
- i.rectify2 (Luca Palmeri)
- i.maxlik (Angus Carr)
- r.cats (Luca Palmeri)
- r.in.tiff (color table, warning on NULL) (Markus Neteler)
- r.in.gif (color table, warning on NULL)(Markus Neteler)
- r.in.hdf (3.x lib only)
- r.out.hdf (3.x lib only)
- r.answers (Markus Neteler)
- r.mapcalc (Luca Palmeri)
- r.mask (Luca Palmeri)
- r.statistics (Markus Neteler)
- s.surf.rst (Helena Mitasova)
- s.in.ascii (Markus Neteler)
- s.surf.idw (Job Spijker)
- r.resamp.rst (Helena Mitasova)
- v.surf.rst (Helena Mitasova)
- v.digit (Luca Palmeri)
- NVIZ2.2 (Pierre de Mouveaux)
- several code patches from Berhard Reiter for DUAlpha

- shade.clr.sh (Markus Neteler)
- shade.rel.sh (Markus Neteler)

- src/libes/gis/sites.c (Bill Brown): fixes memory problem
- src/libes/imagery/c_point.c (Angus Carr)
- src/libes/geom/optri (Markus Neteler)
- src/libes/g3d/* (Jaro Hofierka)
- updated around 20 Gmakefiles for SUN/Solaris $(XDRLIB)
- all rst-libs under src/libes/rst/ now
- libimage (NVIZ) under src/libes/libimage/ now

updated man-pages for: (HTML-pages as well) Lisa Zygo
d.3d r.le.dist r.proj
d.histogram r.le.null r.rational.regression
d.leg.thin r.le.patch r.report
d.rast r.le.pixel r.spreadpath
g.setproj r.le.rename r.stage3
m.in.stf1.db3 r.le.setup r.stats
p.vrml r.le.trace r.surf.fractal
r.cats r.null r.surf.gauss
r.circle r.out.agnps r.surf.random
r.cost r.out.arc r.surf.xy
r.describe r.out.ascii r.tribs
r.in.ascii r.out.mpeg r.what
r.in.hdf r.out.tiff
r.in.pbm r.plane

Regards

Markus Neteler

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On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:15:10PM +0000, Markus Neteler wrote:

the "final call for updates" for the next release of
GRASS was successfull, I received numerous bugfixes
yesterday and today!

Great.
It is good to see GRASS development accelerating.
We should think about making it an official GNU project.

- several code patches from Berhard Reiter for DUAlpha

They were mostly general cleanup.
The main advantage here is, that I can use a different but
still high quality C compiler.

May I remind you again, that C++ comments are _not_ ANSI-C!
Please do not use them.

--
Research Assistant, Geog Dept UM-Milwaukee, USA. (www.uwm.edu/~bernhard)
Free Software Projects and Consulting (intevation.net)
Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org)

Bernhard Reiter wrote:

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:15:10PM +0000, Markus Neteler wrote:
> the "final call for updates" for the next release of
> GRASS was successfull, I received numerous bugfixes
> yesterday and today!
Great.
It is good to see GRASS development accelerating.
We should think about making it an official GNU project.

Yes it is great that things are going well. However, making GRASS a gnu
project would not be in the best interest of the community. GRASS is a
specialized piece of software that is not suited for general public use. Rich

Shephard had a good bit to say about this in the general GRASS Users
forum. We tend to agree that we should keep GRASS under our control
rather than turn it over to the Gnu project.

> - several code patches from Berhard Reiter for DUAlpha
They were mostly general cleanup.
The main advantage here is, that I can use a different but
still high quality C compiler.

May I remind you again, that C++ comments are _not_ ANSI-C!
Please do not use them.

Yep!

--
Research Assistant, Geog Dept UM-Milwaukee, USA. (www.uwm.edu/~bernhard)
Free Software Projects and Consulting (intevation.net)
Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org)

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On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 02:33:26PM -0600, Bruce_Byars@baylor.edu wrote:

> We should think about making it an official GNU project.

Yes it is great that things are going well. However, making GRASS a
gnu project would not be in the best interest of the community. GRASS
is a specialized piece of software that is not suited for general
public use. Rich Shephard had a good bit to say about this in the
general GRASS Users forum. We tend to agree that we should keep GRASS
under our control rather than turn it over to the Gnu project.

I learned more about what makes a project a GNU project.
Also the FSF asked me to tell you that they are interested in GRASS.
You do not need to assign copyright to the GNU project.
I attach an explaination about this.

  Bernhard

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