[Pkg-grass-general] Fw: [GRASS5] GRASS 6.0.0
fyi, GRASS GIS 6.0.0 released. spread the word.
fun facts timeline:
Development on proto-GRASS began in 1982 by the US Army Construction
Engineering Research Laboratory (USA-CERL) on Vax 11/780. Also in this
year the Commodore 64 was announced, as was MS-DOS 1.1.
1983 GRASS ported to SUN-1 Microcomputer.
1985 GRASS 1.0.
In 1987 GRASS 2.0 was released as well as a GRASS video narrated by
William Shatner (Captain Kirk of Star Trek).
1988 GRASS 3.0.
1991 GRASS 4.0.
1995 GRASS port to Linux.
1996 US gov't abandons GRASS to the public domain.
1999 first version of GRASS 5. Project licensed under GNU GPL.
5.0.0/stable released September 2002.
Development on 6.0 started in CVS 6 January 2002 (3 years, 2 months ago).
10 Mar 2005: GRASS GIS 6.0.0 released.
SLOC analysis:
http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2004-August/015127.html
more info-
GRASS 6.0: http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass60/index.php
History: http://grass.ibiblio.org/devel/grasshist.html
Hamish
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:07:35 +0100
From: Radim Blazek <blazek@itc.it>
To: GRASS Mailing List <GRASSLIST@baylor.edu>
Cc: grass5 <grass5@grass.itc.it>
Subject: [GRASS5] GRASS 6.0.0
The GRASS 6.0.0 was released
http://grass.itc.it/grass60/source/grass-6.0.0.tar.gz
http://grass.itc.it/grass60/source/grass-6.0.0.md5sum
CVS tag: grass_6_0_0
Can somebody help and announce that in
news:comp.infosystems.gis
http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/submitnews.html (not free any more)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/grass/?highlight=GRASS
http://www.linuxapps.com/?page=application&database=current&id=40
http://www.newsforge.com/submit.pl
http://osx.macnn.com/ (email to news tips)
http://www.gis-news.de/ (news@gismngt.de)
http://www.giscafe.com/ (link: submit material, needs registration)
http://www.geopoint.de/ (German GIS journal)
http://www.freegis.org
http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases.php
(click on 'Contact Us')
http://www.gisdevelopment.net (click on 'Submit Press Release')
http://www.gnu.org/directory/science/geography/grass.html
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=19776
.....
6.0.1 / 6.1 development:
------------------------
Critical small bugfixes for 6.0.1 will be done in releasebranch_6_0,
don't forget to make the same bugfix also in MAIN branch! That means you
must submit the change twice.
New features must not be added to releasebranch_6_0!
6.1 development continues in MAIN branch.
Radim
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