on the grass-user ML Markus N wrote: > (and it is time to get 6.4.4 out...)
fwiw, I've gone through the two branches with kdiff3 and selectively backported many of the differences between the branches. There are a number of experiments and minor cosmetic changes which I didn't backport. One big remaining hope I had for 6.4.4 was to backport the parallelization work in the imagery scripts, e.g. i.landsat.rgb. I think they are pretty good but I haven't tried them on WinGrass to learn how well MSys deals with backgrounding jobs with "&". I had planned to merge scripts/ first, to give them the maximum amount of testing in the stable branch, but it turned out to be too big a job for the small windows of time I could give to it. But now I am mostly waiting on testing them in 6.5 nightly WinGrass. "Important bugs concerning the next release" https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/report/13 The other two important tasks for 6.4.4 in my mind are to get python addon scripts working with 6.4's g.extension.py, both for Linux and WinGrass (#1768, just committed an experimental change to 6.5svn a few days ago; e.g. for r.threshold), and secondly to get the Cairo driver working on WinGrass (#943). The Cairo driver seems to need some G_spawn() pipe handling/closing in d.mon, using SF_BACKGROUND and other popen flags which I just stumble around in the dark with & need some assistance. It's our busy field season right now and I'm just about to head back out to sea, so I won't be here to work on things for the next few weeks (... and then the holidays come). Are there critical bugs fixed in 6.4.4svn since 6.4.3 that demand we ship a fix for ASAP? If not, I'd like to put some energy into the above issues first. If there is some critical need to release now, I don't mind putting these other things off for a 6.4.5, but especially the 'running custom python scripts' in 6.4 WinGrass seems like an important thing to have working out of the box for end users. thanks, Hamish _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
