On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:49:05PM +0100, Martin Landa wrote: > Hi, > > 2010/11/20 Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it>: > > > I know it's an old thread, and that not everybody agrees, but I still > > think, after > > talking with people more knowledgeable than me, that separating the core of > > GRASS > > (libraries+CLI) from the GUI(s) will make the release and packaging process > > faster > > and smoother, and the integration with other software, both desktop and > > web, easier > > and cleaner. > > Can we revive the discussion about this? > > well, my option is very subjective - wxGUI is going to be a solid GUI > for GRASS. Anyone can build it's own GRASS distribution without any > GUI (libraries and subset of the GRASS modules). But it's not task for > the core GRASS developers. They are creating solid environment --- > GRASS libraries + modules (CLI) and also the GUI. Feel free to take > what you what from this composition. > > Martin >
What Paolo is probably trying (also?) to say is that GUIs and core could have completely different release cycles. The GUI should be a component like any other, to be released when ready, but that should not become a permanent blocker of the release process, like did happen in the 6.4 release. Many people (like me and many other) use Grass as a scripting language and are completely uninterested in having a stable GUI at all, but are interested in having a working stable core in reasonable times. Of course, IMHO applies. -- Francesco P. Lovergine _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev