Greetings from remote parts of China. I agree with all about releasing 6.4.
As it stands now 6.4 is much more stable and usable than 6.2.3. wxnviz and wxdigit are experimental for this release, so we shouldn't worry about them too much. The TclTk versions of both work well. 1+ for release as quickly as possible. Michael ____________________ C. Michael Barton Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change Arizona State University voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC) fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) www: www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu On Jul 6, 2010, at 10:34 AM, grass-dev-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote: > Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 22:34:23 -0400 > From: Helena Mitasova <hmit...@unity.ncsu.edu> > Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] 6.4.0 blocker bugs > To: Glynn Clements <gl...@gclements.plus.com> > Cc: Markus Metz <markus.metz.gisw...@googlemail.com>, Martin Landa > <landa.mar...@gmail.com>, GRASS developers list > <grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org> > Message-ID: <bba240b3-11dc-40ab-b670-d58a8063e...@unity.ncsu.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > On Jul 5, 2010, at 5:11 PM, Glynn Clements wrote: > >> >> Markus Neteler wrote: >> >>>>>> time to get out 6.4.0final :-) >>>>> >>>>> Please... >>>> >>>> one huge +1 ... >>> >>> I learned that we should await the ctypes port to get rid of SWIG? >> >> SWIG is only used within GRASS for the wxGUI vdigit and nviz modules. >> It's also used to generate wrappers for programmers who wish to access >> the libraries directly, but these aren't used by any part of GRASS. >> >> I suggest disabling all of this in the final release. The vdigit and >> nviz modules don't work on Windows, and aren't particularly robust on >> other platforms (and being loaded in-process means that any problems >> affect the GUI as a whole, not just the vdigit/nviz modules). > > Glynn, > I assume you are talking about wxnviz here, not the TclTk based nviz > which runs on windows just fine? > > I agree that it is really important to get 6.4 final released, especially > given > that FOSS4G in Barcelona is coming soon > > Helena >> >> The SWIG wrappers for the libraries are barely usable and are planned >> to be replaced, so we shouldn't be encouraging their use. >> >> IOW: >> >> 1. The "swig" directory should be removed from DIRS in the top-level >> Makefile, so it isn't built (unless the user builds it manually). >> >> 2. Official binaries shouldn't use --with-python; this will prevent >> the vdigit and nviz modules from being built. >> >> 3. Optionally back-port the ctypes wrappers (lib/python/ctypes). Even >> if this doesn't work (fails to build or generates broken wrappers), it >> shouldn't break anything which would otherwise work. >> >> 4. Optionally back-port the ctypes-based nviz module (wxnviz.py). This >> has most of the same issues as nviz/vdigit (i.e. the GRASS libraries >> are being accessed directly from the GUI process, so a segfault or >> G_fatal_error() will kill the GUI), but not all of them. >> >> 4b. Alternatively, back-port the changes but not wxnviz.py itself. The >> result is equivalent to just building --without-python (i.e. the GUI >> will try to import the wxnviz module, fail, and warn that it's >> disabled), except that the user can drop in wxnviz.py from SVN if they >> want to try it out. >> >> -- >> Glynn Clements <gl...@gclements.plus.com> >> _______________________________________________ >> grass-dev mailing list >> grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev > > _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
