[QGIS-Developer] The build of weekly snapshots stopped in February

[Nyall Dawson]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 19:00, Régis Haubourg <regis.haubourg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We would need to have a parameter to set the download location, as http or file resource so that remote site with no internet available can still install QGIS then...

I wouldn't suggest doing it as part of the install. I'd do it as a
post-install, first launch step (if internet connectivity is
available)

Nyall

>
> Le jeu. 19 mars 2020 à 07:53, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 16:49, Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Andrea,
>> >
>> > On Wed, 18. Mar 2020 at 16:18:39 -0700, Andrea Giudiceandrea wrote:
>> > > it seems that the build of the weekly snapshots of qgis-dev from OSGeo4W as
>> > > standalone installer for Windows stopped in February: the last one is
>> > > QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.11.0-8 25-Feb-2020.
>> >
>> > Yes. proj-dev-data is to huge for NSIS.  Best install via OSGeo4W until grids
>> > are downloadable via proj.
>>
>> There's no plans to use proj 7's built in auto grid download. This
>> isn't designed for GUI applications like QGIS -- if we did, we'd get
>> UI hangs all over the place while QGIS is trying to transform
>> coordinates, and proj blocks and waits for the download to occur.
>>
>> What we should instead do is just fire up a background task on first
>> install to download ALL THE GRIDS FOR EVERYWHERE form the proj CDN and
>> install them locally. Problem solved.... FOREVER! ;)
>>
>> Nyall
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Jürgen
>> >
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