All,<div><br></div><div> As I hinted in a previous message, the head of the OpenGrADS repository now contains GrADS v2.0. This means that all OpenGrADS development, including extensions and interfaces, will focus on GrADS v2.0. As usual, our intention is to take COLA releases pretty much "as is", and add small patches to enable the OpenGrADS extensions. The extensions themselves are developed as add-ons/plug-ins: you should have all the features present in the COLA releases, with the addition of the OpenGrADS extensions. And of course, as a bonus you also get any bugs we unintentionally introduce <img src="cid:338@goomoji.gmail" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0.2ex; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle; " goomoji="338">; a increasing number of unit tests has been developed to catch these bugs earlier on, and we have designed the UDX interface to be very non-intrusive. So, if you don't care about the extensions/interfaces, but still would like a binary not available at COLA's site or the convenience of the "bundle install" there is a very good chance that would would not notice any difference between the OpenGrADS and COLA's builds. The usual caveat applies: no warranty, it is up to you to verify that this is indeed the case. <br clear="all">
<br></div><div> In retiring GrADS v1.x development we realize that are still a number of users out there requiring GrADS v1.x in their day-to-day work. This is because of a lacking feature in GrADS v2.0 (the list of missing features is shrinking fast), or because of memory footprint/performance issues. As long as there is interest in the community (and volunteers!) we will try to maintain builds of v1.x. Only critical bug fixes and rebuilds to keep up with new OS releases will be posted. New development will concentrate on GrADS v2.0.</div>
<div><br></div><div> If you have any questions or would like to make a suggestion drop us a note at <a href="mailto:opengrads-devel@lists.sf.net">opengrads-devel@lists.sf.net</a>.</div><div><br></div><div> Cheers!</div><div>
<br></div><div> Arlindo</div><div><br>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@opengrads.org">dasilva@opengrads.org</a><br>
</div>