[PROJ] ugprade notes for 6.3.1 to 7.0.0

Greg Troxel gdt at lexort.com
Tue Mar 10 12:21:59 PDT 2020


Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> writes:

> On 3/10/20 6:38 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>>   @@ -234,6 +233,7 @@ ${PLIST.grids}share/proj/ontpht1964-nzvd2016.gtx
>>   +share/proj/proj.ini
>> 
>> Not mentioned in NEWS.
>> 
>> This looks like a config file, in which case it's in the wrong place
>> (etc vs share -- share is supposed to be read only by users).
>
> It was deemed too much work to use $sysconfdir, see:
>
>  https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/issues/1979

Thanks.  I ranted a bit ;-)

> As long as it's not in $sysconfdir I don't consider it a config file,

Agreed.

> hence users should make changes and expect the packaging system to
> preserve them.

I think you mean "users should not have the expectation that any changes
they make will be preserved", and if so, agreed.


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