____________________ 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: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu Currently, The file formats have not changed in such a way for this to be a problem. IIRC, the vector indexing protocols have changed in GRASS7, but this is more of a problem going from 6 to 7 than going the other way. Raster formats currently remain compatible. There has been discussion about changing these, but this has not happened yet. Michael On Aug 2, 2010, at 9:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 12:46:54 +0200 > From: Nikos Alexandris <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] stability of GRASS 7? > To: [email protected] > Cc: Tim Michelsen <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > (this did not hit the list previously) > > Tim wrote: >>> do I have to expect data damage when opening GRASS6 >>> locations with the current trunk? > > Hamish: >> we hope not, but do not guarantee it. (ability to break backwards >> compatibility lets us develop faster and in new directions, the >> whole point of a new major version) > >>> Can I use GRASS 7 and then afterwards GRASS 6 again on the >>> same location? > >> for now. > >> do not use development versions for production work. If there >> is a particular new feature which you just can't live without, >> consider putting in a request to have it backported (small things >> only) > > Something to add in the discussion: > > I think it is not a question of "is it going to happen that someone curious > opens 6x-mapsets with grass7x for real work, but _when_". > > And when it happens, will there be (at least) some kind of warning > (mechanism!)? Or/and maybe a major "spread the news" action (in ML's, GRASS- > related feeds)? > > Thanks, Nikos _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
