Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Grass7/NewFeatures

Timestamp:

Jan 25, 2010, 2:14:07 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

neteler

Comment:

Changelog reviewed and some relevant items added here

Grass7/NewFeatures

@@ -1 +1 @@
 = List of new features in GRASS 7 =
+
+[[TOC]]
 
 == Graphical User Interface ==
 
  * wxGUI improved (see [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/wxGUI here])
+   * Advanced GRASS command console
+   * ...
+ * wxWidgets version of ximgview
 
 == Display modules ==
 
- * old display architecture removed
+ * old display architecture removed including related modules
  * new display architecture based on CAIRO and wxPython
+ * ximgview: new
+
+== General modules ==
+
+ * g.cairocomp: new
+ * g.ppmtopng: new
+
+== Image processing ==
+
+ * i.albedo: new
+ * i.biomass: new
+ * i.eb.eta: new
+ * i.eb.evapfr: new
+ * i.eb.h_SEBAL01: new
+ * i.eb.soilheatflux: new
+ * i.emissivity: new
+ * i.evapo.time_integration: new
+ * i.latlong: new
+ * i.modis.qc: new
+ * i.sunhours: new
+ * i.vi: new
 
 == Raster modules ==
 
+ * r.colors.out: new
+ * r.external.out: new
  * r.cost faster by orders of magnitude (10x - 100x)
  * r.walk faster by orders of magnitude (10x - 1000x)
+ * r.mapcalc: use pthreads for parsing
+ * r.solute.transport: new
+ * r.statistics2: new
+ * r.statistics3: new
+ * r.uslek: new
+ * r.usler: new
  * r.watershed improved from G6.3 to G6.4 to G6.5 to G7: faster, less memory, floating point DEM support, MFD, clean stream extraction from MFD, segmented mode in G7 faster than in G6 by orders of magnitude (segmented mode in G7 only a bit slower than all-in-ram mode of G6.4)
+ * r.gwflow/r3.gwflow: Groundwater flow module update
+ * Large File Support (LFS) globally enabled
 
 == Vector modules ==
 
+ * v.krige: new
  * v.in.ogr faster for polygon-import, cleaner output
+ * Large File Support (LFS) globally enabled
+
+== Libccmath ==
+
+ * new library for numerical functions
+
+== Libdbmi ==
+
+ * Added support for OFTDate, OFTTime, OFTDateTime
 
 == Libgis ==
@@ -24 +70 @@
  * WPS support implemented in parser
  * Libraster separated out into own library
+ * Store metadata in $HOME/.grass7 directory
+
+== Libgmath ==
+
+ * gmath solver updated to use ATLAS blas level 1 algorithms.
 
 == Libraster ==
 
- * Libraster separated out from libgis
+ * Libraster separated out from libgis, refactored
 
 == Libvector ==
@@ -34 +85 @@
  * new spatial index, and spatial index kept in file: faster queries (>10x for large vectors), less memory for opening an existing vector
  * cleaning functions 'break polygons' and 'snap lines' faster, less memory
+ * Simple Features API/OGR read/write support (ongoing)
+
+== Documentation ==
+
+ * Use Python to generate HTML docs
+
+== API ==
+
+ * Programmer's manual cleanup: http://download.osgeo.org/grass/grass7_progman/
+ * Improved Python API
+   * read/write GRASS rasters to/from !NumPy
+
+== Portability ==
+
+ * All shell scripts have been rewritten in Python
+ * MS-Windows portability improved, new spawn functions (backported to 6.5 and 6.4)
+ * MacOSX portability improved
+
+== Removed modules ==
+ * d.ask, d.colors, d.extend, d.extract, d.frame, d.mapgraph, d.measure, d.menu, d.mon, d.save, d.what.rast, d.what.vect, d.zoom (old display architecture decommissioned)
+ * g.ask, g.setproj
+ * i.class, i.ortho.photo, i.points, i.vpoints ('''need to be ported'''; old display architecture decommissioned)
+ * raster:
+   * r.average, r.bilinear, r.median (merged into ...)
+   * r.digit ('''need to be ported'''; old display architecture decommissioned)
+   * r.le.patch, r.le.pixel, r.le.setup, r.le.trace: replaced by r.li.*
+   * r.sim.sediment, r.sim.water ('''need to be ported''')
+   * r.sum (?)
+   * r.terraflow.short (FP version is sufficient)
+ * v.digit (new wxPython digitizer)
+