Hamish, you're right, anyone can still freely use former but stable versions of Grass (like Jan does with grass5 for digitizing) for his particular purposes. Looking towards future I just figure out it's high time I began learning python ;-)
Anyway, thank you all for this interesting discussion, Vincent. Le samedi 05 décembre 2009 à 02:51 -0800, Hamish a écrit : > Vincent wrote: > > I praised him that developing his > > future personalized solutions on GRASS would be a guarantee > > of long-lasting, reliabilty, and so on... oops ! > > > backwards compatibility since grass 6.0.0 in March 2005 is no mistake. > it suggests that any code written for grass 7 will work for a similar time > frame. and there is nothing stopping anyone from running grass 6.x well > into the future, or continue with grass 5.4 for that matter. > > to limit ourselves from any change would guarantee obsolescence. the > great trick is to compress all that good change into a single instant > which are far appart, rather than to allow continual change with no > stability. > > > regards, > Hamish > > > > > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user