Re: [GRASS-dev] Release policy: towards an urgent GRASS GIS release with Python3 support

2018-12-27 Thread Helena Mitasova
I agree that we need tp release GRASS with python 3 support as soon as possible and 7.8 seems more feasible than 8.0. I would like to hear from Anna on how much much is needed and whether she or Vashek need to spend some significant time on it (which would be OK with me as this is a critical ne

Re: [GRASS-dev] Release policy: towards an urgent GRASS GIS release with Python3 support

2018-12-27 Thread Markus Neteler
On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 12:18 PM Luca Delucchi wrote: > Il giorno gio 27 dic 2018, 10:38 Markus Neteler ha > scritto: ... > Are we sure that a so big change does not require a major release, moving > forward to 8.0? > > I remember already some discussion about it but I don't remember if we arri

Re: [GRASS-dev] Release policy: towards an urgent GRASS GIS release with Python3 support

2018-12-27 Thread Luca Delucchi
Il giorno gio 27 dic 2018, 10:38 Markus Neteler ha scritto: > Dear all, > Dears, > 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? > Are we sure that a so big c

Re: [GRASS-dev] Release policy: towards an urgent GRASS GIS release with Python3 support

2018-12-27 Thread Helmut Kudrnovsky
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

Re: [GRASS-dev] Release policy: towards an urgent GRASS GIS release with Python3 support

2018-12-27 Thread Moritz Lennert
Am 27. Dezember 2018 10:38:39 MEZ schrieb Markus Neteler : >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 requi

[GRASS-dev] Release policy: towards an urgent GRASS GIS release with Python3 support

2018-12-27 Thread Markus Neteler
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 variou