GRASS 6.2 Feature Plan
GRASS 6.2.x feature plan
There is the release branch for 6.2.x, see details at CVS: tags and branches. A release branch is considered as "frozen", only bugfixes can be done.
GRASS 6.2.0
In general 6.2 does not deviate too much from the 6.1.0 to avoid a major delay.
TODOs
- unlimited number of raster map (r.patch, r.series etc) (Glynn)
- several MinGW fixes for native MS-Windows support (Glynn)
- several fixes for MS-Windows/Cygwin support (Huidae)
- no hardcoded ARCH for Python-SWIG (Markus)
- vector/lidar: added missing includes (Markus)
- g.region b>t bug fixed (Martin)
- GRASS_PAGER (Glynn)
- r.mapcalc rand() (Glynn)
- tcl i18n install fix (Markus)
- LOCALE awk fixes to some scripts (Markus)
- SUN compilation fixes (Glynn)
- user docs fixes (Maciek)
- r.bilinear: Read/write maps as DCELL; Remove +0.5 from result (Glynn)
- NVIZ height update to avoid scene jump (Bob)
- Add the new v.lidar.* tools (needed for FOSS4G2006) (Roberto A. + Markus)
- lidar and simwe compilation issues on MacOSX fixed (William)
- Makefile cleanup for extra libraries (lidar, simwe, lrs) (Glynn + Markus)
- keywords backported from 6.3-CVS (Markus)
- renamed dbmi driver html files to include 'grass-' to avoid package conflicts (Markus)
Beta 1:
- v.digit: split icons into two rows for 800x600 screens (backport) (Michael, Hamish)
- gis.m fixes (Michael)
- v.proj: treat z as ellipsoidal height (Paul)
Beta 2:
- g.proj compile fix (Markus)
- NVIZ: Tk8.5 fix (Markus)
Beta 3:
- docs improvements (Eric, Trevor)
- write impressive press release (best in CVS Web)
WONTFIX? Later?
- r.out.gdal region sensitive
- NVIZ volume problem (test with slovakia3d dataset) - sometimes it works
Ideas
- do the proposed bug day soon (in August '06)
Releases
- Source code Snapshot
- 6.2.0beta1 release 28 August 2006
- It would be great to have it available for the FOSS4G2006 conference in September (so, >= 5th September).