Re: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 15/04/08 22:39, Marco Pasetti wrote: Hi all, It would be good also for me, even if it would better if we release it on next week tough (I'm very busy now). BTW, there are few thing to do for me, just some improvements for windows installer... Martin, do you think that we could add the needed

[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #110: db/drivers/dbf fail to build due to undefined reference to 'SASetupDefaultHooks' (SHAPELIB)

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#110: db/drivers/dbf fail to build due to undefined reference to 'SASetupDefaultHooks' (SHAPELIB) ---+ Reporter: marisn| Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Type: defect| Status: closed

Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Paul Kelly
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Markus Neteler wrote: (to continue on this thread) After 6 release candidates, even tested on MS-Windows, I don't see any real blockers any more. I suggest to get out 6.3.0 this week and proceed with change to 6.4.release_branch/7.0.svn. Yes go for it I say; 6.3.0 is not

[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #50: g.copy segfaults (debian.gfoss.it package) [and latest SVN]

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#50: g.copy segfaults (debian.gfoss.it package) [and latest SVN] --+- Reporter: steko| Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: major| Mil

Re: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Glynn Clements
Moritz Lennert wrote: > > It would be good also for me, even if it would better if we release it on > > next week tough (I'm very busy now). BTW, there are few thing to do for me, > > just some improvements for windows installer... > > > > Martin, do you think that we could add the needed python

R: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread marco.pasetti
Hi Moritz, >It really is not difficult to download and install the python installers... yes, I agree but: when I think to softwares packaging I always keep in my mind all the experiences *collected* during the years with many users, specially here at my university... specially among teach

R: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread marco.pasetti
Glynn, >I would suggest two installers: one for GRASS alone, and one for the various dependencies (PROJ, GDAL, MSys, ...). The idea is that you shouldn't have to download all of the dependencies each time a new version of GRASS is released. we could do as follows: 1. a *complete*, *first time*

Re: R: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Martin Landa
Marco, 2008/4/16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Martin, do you think that we could add the needed python files into the > > 6.3.0 windows package, in order to let users start the pyGUI without the > > need to install python stuffs by themselves? > > -1 > > I don't think we should bloa

[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #72: PNG driver: boundary rendering is off by one pixel

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#72: PNG driver: boundary rendering is off by one pixel --+- Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority: blocker | Milest

Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Martin Landa
Hi, 2008/4/16, Paul Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes go for it I say; 6.3.0 is not a stable release and everything does not > have to be perfect, but may I suggest that the new branch for continued 6.x > development be called develbranch_6 and that a 6.4 release branch be created > off there at a

Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Glynn Clements
Hamish wrote: > > After 6 release candidates, even tested on MS-Windows, > > I don't see any real blockers any more. I suggest to get out > > 6.3.0 this week and proceed with change to 6.4.release_branch/7.0.svn. > > > > We can have 6.3.1 if needed. > > > > Sounds ok? > > to me, trac bug #72 i

[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #111: r.los error "r.los.exe there are encountered to problem and needs to close"

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#111: r.los error "r.los.exe there are encountered to problem and needs to close" --+- Reporter: gsancho | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority:

[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #111: r.los error "r.los.exe there are encountered to problem and needs to close"

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#111: r.los error "r.los.exe there are encountered to problem and needs to close" --+- Reporter: gsancho | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority:

Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Hamish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Markus Neteler wrote: > > (to continue on this thread) > > > > After 6 release candidates, even tested on MS-Windows, > > I don't see any real blockers any more. I suggest to get out > > 6.3.0 this week and proceed with chang

Re: R: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 16/04/08 10:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glynn, >I would suggest two installers: one for GRASS alone, and one for the various dependencies (PROJ, GDAL, MSys, ...). The idea is that you shouldn't have to download all of the dependencies each time a new version of GRASS is released. we could

[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #50: g.copy segfaults (debian.gfoss.it package) [and latest SVN]

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#50: g.copy segfaults (debian.gfoss.it package) [and latest SVN] --+- Reporter: steko| Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: major| Mil

[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #124: d.legend: apply arbitrary labels to a smooth floating-point colorbar

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#124: d.legend: apply arbitrary labels to a smooth floating-point colorbar --+- Reporter: epatton | Owner: hamish Type: enhancement | Status: assigned Priority: minor

Re: R: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Benjamin Ducke
I would vote for a lean base installer to be distributed on grass.itc.it. Other projects can build fatter installers based on that and distribute them. A bare bones installer will be much easier to maintain for us in the long run. Benjamin Moritz Lennert wrote: On 16/04/08 10:41, [EMAIL PROTECT

[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #97: r.random fails with bus error on Mac OS X 10.5

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#97: r.random fails with bus error on Mac OS X 10.5 ---+ Reporter: cmbarton | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Type: defect| Status: new Priority: critical | Milestone: 6

[GRASS-dev] G_OPT_R_OUTPUT base or output?

2008-04-16 Thread Roger Bivand
On two very similar systems built today from the RC6 tarball (i686 RHEL5, F7), I see that G_OPT_R_OUTPUT gets defined on F7 as "base", and the traditional "output" on RHEL5. The tarballs have the same md5sums. Why? r.in.gdal, r.in.ascii, r.los and r.in.bin (at least) are affected. lib/gis/pars

Re: [GRASS-dev] G_OPT_R_OUTPUT base or output?

2008-04-16 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Roger Bivand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On two very similar systems built today from the RC6 tarball (i686 RHEL5, > F7), I see that G_OPT_R_OUTPUT gets defined on F7 as "base", and the > traditional "output" on RHEL5. The tarballs have the same md5sums. Why? > >

Re: [GRASS-dev] G_OPT_R_OUTPUT base or output?

2008-04-16 Thread Roger Bivand
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Dylan Beaudette wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Roger Bivand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On two very similar systems built today from the RC6 tarball (i686 RHEL5, F7), I see that G_OPT_R_OUTPUT gets defined on F7 as "base", and the traditional "output" on RHEL5. The

Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Barton
On my way out of town. I have 3 quick comments 1) How the binary installers are packaged should not affect the 6.3.0 release. IMHO, go for it. 2) A separate dependency installer is an excellent idea for Windows. That is what has been done on the Mac for years and is very successful. 3) Currently

[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #97: r.random fails with bus error on Mac OS X 10.5

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Barton
I can't test on 10.5 until I get back in town next week. Michael On 4/16/08 7:14 AM, "GRASS GIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #97: r.random fails with bus error on Mac OS X 10.5 > ---+ > Reporter: cmbarton | Owner

Re: [GRASS-dev] G_OPT_R_OUTPUT base or output?

2008-04-16 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Roger Bivand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Roger Bivand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On two very similar systems built today from the RC6 tarball (i686 > RHEL5, > > > F7), I

[GRASS-dev] db commands on vectors stored in another mapset

2008-04-16 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Hi, Using the spearfish dataset: # start grass grass63 grass/spearfish60/user1/ # dump the table associated with 'bugsites' in PERMANENT db.select [EMAIL PROTECTED] dbmi: Protocol error dbmi: Protocol error # one more try: db.select bugsites DBMI-DBF driver error: Table 'bugsites' doesn't exi

R: R: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread marco.pasetti
Hi Moritz, >This actually sounds much more sophisticated than what Glynn proposed. yes, it is... but we could make a walkaround... I'll explain how later... >Could you not simply propose one installer with only the latest >(complete) GRASS binaries. This installer could check for any existing

Re: [GRASS-dev] G_OPT_R_OUTPUT base or output?

2008-04-16 Thread Markus Neteler
Roger Bivand wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Dylan Beaudette wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Roger Bivand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On two very similar systems built today from the RC6 tarball (i686 RHEL5, F7), I see that G_OPT_R_OUTPUT gets defined on F7 as "base", and the traditional "

[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #127: WinGRASS Tcl/Tk GUI - Text formatting error in Output window

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#127: WinGRASS Tcl/Tk GUI - Text formatting error in Output window ---+ Reporter: 4everskiff | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Type: defect | Status: new

Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Barton
Marco, I see what you mean on Windows. Actually, in this case, there are no dependencies like you find on Unix systems. A separate install for Msys/TclTk/Python might be useful. Then that part could be installed only as needed and GRASS could be updated more often. Michael On 4/16/08 9:00 AM, "

R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread marco.pasetti
Michael, >I see what you mean on Windows. Actually, in this case, there are no >dependencies like you find on Unix systems thx. it's difficult to be a Windows user here. GRASS people is used to work on too much advanced systems than I'm used to ;-) (even if I'm a linux user too) >A separate

[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #127: WinGRASS Tcl/Tk GUI - Text formatting error in Output window

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#127: WinGRASS Tcl/Tk GUI - Text formatting error in Output window -+-- Reporter: 4everskiff | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority: minor

Re: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Barton
You have described it well. If it¹s easier to just do a single package, then I think that is what you should do. That is what most Windows (and Mac) users expect anyway. Michael On 4/16/08 9:40 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael, > >> >I see what you mean on Windows.

Re: [GRASS-dev] db commands on vectors stored in another mapset

2008-04-16 Thread Maciej Sieczka
Dylan Beaudette pisze: Is this the normal behavior? i.e. I can "use" raster and vector files across mapsets, but why not vector attributes? Because you are using DBF driver and your database is in: $GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/dbf/ (check with db.connect -p). This results in a different

Re: [GRASS-dev] db commands on vectors stored in another mapset

2008-04-16 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Maciej Sieczka wrote: > Dylan Beaudette pisze: > > Is this the normal behavior? i.e. I can "use" raster and vector files > > across mapsets, but why not vector attributes? > > Because you are using DBF driver and your database is in: > > $GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/

[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #127: WinGRASS Tcl/Tk GUI - Text formatting error in Output window

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#127: WinGRASS Tcl/Tk GUI - Text formatting error in Output window -+-- Reporter: 4everskiff | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority: minor

R: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Marco Pasetti
Hi Michael, >If it’s easier to just do a single package, then I think that is what you should do. That is what most Windows (and Mac) users expect anyway. ...and that's very good to hear for me ;-) Marco _ Da: Michael Barton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: mercoledì 16 aprile 200

[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #128: NVIZ fails to load vector points without other map

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#128: NVIZ fails to load vector points without other map -+-- Reporter: neteler | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major| Milestone: 6.

[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #46: NVIZ fly mode broken on 64bit systems

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#46: NVIZ fly mode broken on 64bit systems --+- Reporter: marisn | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major| Milestone: 6.4.0

[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #128: NVIZ fails to load vector points without other map

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#128: NVIZ fails to load vector points without other map --+- Reporter: neteler | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major| Milestone:

Re: [GRASS-dev] G_OPT_R_OUTPUT base or output?

2008-04-16 Thread Roger Bivand
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Markus Neteler wrote: Roger Bivand wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Roger Bivand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On two very similar systems built today from the RC6 tarball (i686 > > RHEL5, > > F7), I see that

Re: [GRASS-dev] G_OPT_R_OUTPUT base or output?

2008-04-16 Thread Hamish
Roger Bivand wrote: > I don't have ldd on Cygwin, but will look under F7. use cygcheck, http://grass.osgeo.org/grass62/binary/mswindows/#trouble Hamish Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all

Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #50: g.copy segfaults (debian.gfoss.it package) [and latest SVN]

2008-04-16 Thread Glynn Clements
GRASS GIS wrote: > #50: g.copy segfaults (debian.gfoss.it package) [and latest SVN] > --+- > Reporter: steko| Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org > Type: defect | Status: closed >

Re: R: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Glynn Clements
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I would suggest two installers: one for GRASS alone, and one for the > >various dependencies (PROJ, GDAL, MSys, ...). The idea is that you > >shouldn't have to download all of the dependencies each time a new > >version of GRASS is released. > > we could do as follows

Re: R: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Glynn Clements
Moritz Lennert wrote: > > >I would suggest two installers: one for GRASS alone, and one for the > > various dependencies (PROJ, GDAL, MSys, ...). The idea is that you > > shouldn't have to download all of the dependencies each time a new > > version of GRASS is released. > > we could do as follo

Re: R: R: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

2008-04-16 Thread Glynn Clements
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >The question then is: do we need a "complete" installer with everything > >in it (as you suggest), or can we impose the burden of two installers on > >people, i.e. as Glynn suggests: one GRASS installer + one Dependencies > >installer. I think this would be the best so

Re: [GRASS-dev] G_OPT_R_OUTPUT base or output?

2008-04-16 Thread Glynn Clements
Roger Bivand wrote: > have odd/stale things in the GRASS_LD_LIBRARY_PATH and in PATH (or LD > path) environment variables. I don't have ldd on Cygwin, but will look > under F7. On Cygwin, "cygcheck" lists the DLLs which a program uses. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __

Re: [GRASS-dev] db commands on vectors stored in another mapset

2008-04-16 Thread Hamish
> > Dylan Beaudette pisze: > > > Is this the normal behavior? i.e. I can "use" raster and vector > > > files across mapsets, but why not vector attributes? Maciek: > > Because you are using DBF driver and your database is in: > > > > $GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/dbf/ > > > > (check with db.conn

[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #127: WinGRASS Tcl/Tk GUI - Text formatting error in Output window

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#127: WinGRASS Tcl/Tk GUI - Text formatting error in Output window -+-- Reporter: 4everskiff | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority: minor

[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #128: NVIZ fails to load vector points without other map

2008-04-16 Thread GRASS GIS
#128: NVIZ fails to load vector points without other map --+- Reporter: neteler | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major| Milestone:

Re: [GRASS-dev] G_OPT_R_OUTPUT base or output?

2008-04-16 Thread Roger Bivand
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Hamish wrote: Roger Bivand wrote: I don't have ldd on Cygwin, but will look under F7. use cygcheck, http://grass.osgeo.org/grass62/binary/mswindows/#trouble Thanks to Hamish and Glynn - making a copy of the installed /bin/cygjasper-1.dll as /bin/cygjasper-1-701-1.dl

Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #128: NVIZ fails to load vector points without other map

2008-04-16 Thread Maciej Sieczka
Comment (by hamish): (but points are treated differently than lines and faces in NVIZ) see also bug #49: NVIZ displays points (sites) always as thematic Hi Related: there is Bob Covill's patch fixing NVIZ sites dependency [1]. It would be too bad not to have it utilized. It's almost complet