Markus Neteler wrote > Dear all, > > we rather urgently need to publish trunk as the new stable version in > order to get rid of the current Python2 issues. > Python2 is close to EOL and being slowly dropped. Our interfaces to > other software including QGIS require Python3. Also packaging becomes > increasingly difficult on various operating systems as well as the > usage of GRASS GIS in cloud environments (Openshift etc). > > I would suggest to only publish a single release of GRASS GIS 7.6 and > to concentrate on the 7.8 release with Python3 support. > > Hence, I propose to start a new releasebranch_7_8 asap. > > The following maintenance scheme would result: > > - releasebranch_6_4: sleeping, rather EOL > - releasebranch_7_2: EOL > - releasebranch_7_4: LTS > - releasebranch_7_6: interim stable release > - releasebranch_7_8: LTS > - trunk: G79, towards 8 > > Again, we need to come to speed with Python3 support in terms of > actually releasing it and the current trunk version looks works quite > well. > > We may discuss to make 7.6 LTS and 7.4 EOL but many distros won't > allow to update to 7.6 nor a 7.6 LTS will motivate us to avoid > backporting and focus on 7.8 :-) > > Opinions?
+1 regarding winGRASS with python 3, first steps for setup the OSGeo4W are already done, see https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3719 ----- best regards Helmut -- Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Grass-Dev-f3991897.html _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
