This file lists most of ongoing GRASS 5 Projects

$Id: ONGOING,v 1.9 2000-11-19 17:29:20 markus Exp $


GRASS 5.0 (stable) is scheduled for Autumn 2000.

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What's currently going on (you are encouraged to assist):

auto-conf:
- extended "autoconf" for entire package:
  new Makefile system
  (Being worked on by Eric Mitchell <emitchell@altaira.com>)
  -> will go into GRASS 5.1

GRASS initialization:
- GRASS graphical initialization (startup screens, location settings etc)
  -> will go into GRASS 5.1
- new env var handling
  (Being worked on by Justin <jhickey@impact1.hpcc.nectec.or.th>)
  -> will go into GRASS 5.1


Libraries:
- projection datum support for maps
  (Being worked on by Andreas Lange <Andreas.Lange@Rhein-Main.de>)
  -> will go into GRASS 5.0stable
  -> library done 10/2000.

- release import/export routines separately under LGPL
  add GDAL support (for OSSIM and OpenEV projects)
  (Being worked on by Frank Warmerdam <warmerda@home.com> /
   Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@intevation.de>)
  -> libgrass initial version done.

- new 3D vector format: see documents/v3d_proposal.txt
  Being worked on by: 
  David D Gray, Radim Blazek
   <ddgray@armadce.demon.co.uk>
   <Radim.Blazek@dhv.cz>
  -> will go into GRASS 5.1

XDRIVER
- remove fifos, use sockets (required for faster XDRIVER and WINDOWS port)
  (Being worked on by Carl Anderson <candrsn@mindspring.com>)
  -> will go into GRASS 5.1


Modules:
- full RGB support to all display modules
  (Pierre de Mouveaux <pmx@audiovu.com> <pmx@free.fr>)
  -> will go into GRASS 5.1

- vector network analysis
  (Being worked on by Roberto Micarelli <mi.ro@iol.it>)
 
- v.out.e00: make it working
  (Being worked on by Michel Wurtz <mw@engees.u-strasbg.fr>)

- r.out.e00: write it
  (Being worked on by Michel Wurtz)

- Reorganize initialization routines and write a Tcl/Tk interface
  for initialization
  (Being worked on by Justin <jhickey@impact1.hpcc.nectec.or.th>)
  -> will go into GRASS 5.1

- Create a Tcl/Tk interface for v.digit
  (Being worked on by Justin <jhickey@impact1.hpcc.nectec.or.th>)
  -> will go into GRASS 5.1

- Stereo Visualization/Analysis (aerial photos)
  (Being worked on by Cesare Furlanello/IRST <furlan@itc.it>)
  -> will go into GRASS 5.1

- bug fixes

- testsuite
   (Being worked on by Andreas Lange <Andreas.Lange@Rhein-Main.de>)
  -> initial testsuite done.

External projects:

  OSSIM (www.ossim.org) and 
  OpenEV (http://openev.sourceforge.net/) will get a GRASS interface
  to access the GRASS database