[Qgis-user] Is there smth wrong with OSGEO4W installer?

[Bernd Vogelgesang]

ermm .. do not wanna sound ungrateful ... but do you think it's "fair"  
letting people run into such traps?

i do not pay for qgis (ok, i do donate as often as i can), but i really  
wasted hours and days tracking these issues and destroyed some projects  
and there was not the slightest warning (i read the list every hour though  
i still think mailing lists are stone age) about something possible like  
this.

Maybe i got too adventurous by updating frequently, but since 1.8  
everything went so smooth.

"release early, release often" ... who said this ? but maybe do not  
release too early and too often.

i have no idea about this hole osgeo4w-ecosystem and who puts what and  
when into it and its inner logic, so i don't know who to blame.

Just wanna say: please have mercy with poor innocent ignorant users trying  
to work with this software ...

i still love you all ;)
Bernd


Am 06.11.2012, 00:38 Uhr, schrieb Ramon Andiñach <custard at westnet.com.au>:

> Downgrading the GRASS version should also restore your GRASS plugin.
>
> On a related thought...
>
> Until these catch up is the current situation that either QGIS works or  
> QGIS-dev works, but not both?
>
> -ramon.
>
> On 06/11/2012, at 5:33, Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bernd,
>>
>> On Mon, 05. Nov 2012 at 19:06:39 +0100, Bernd Vogelgesang wrote:
>>> As I described, I cleaned all visible traces of qgis, including all
>>> plugins. Neverthelless, when opening an old project, qgis crashed.
>>> But indeed, in some projects there were mrsid layers ...
>>
>> Reinstalling gdal-mrsid brought the problem back - not installing  
>> gdal-mrsid or
>> downgrading GDAL to 1.9.1 will cure the crash.
>>
>> So until gdal-ecw is rebuilt, that's the only way to get mrsid support  
>> working.
>>
>>>> The grass plugin for 1.8 needs a rebuild too - after the upgrade to  
>>>> 6.4.3RC1
>>>> (thought I wait until the RC vanishes...)
>>
>>> does that mean, that i have to pick another grass version to have the   
>>> plugin
>>> available? which will do? other things to change?
>>
>> Yes, downgrading to GRASS 6.4.2 should have worked.   But there's a  
>> fresh 1.8.0(-4)
>> build now anyway (but that doesn't help with the gdal-mrsid issue).
>>
>>
>>> and i believe most people have really no clue what to do (even less  
>>> than me)
>>> is not everybody, installing a fresh osgeo4w setup and everyone doing  
>>> an
>>> update, affected by these incompatibilities, or is it just me?
>>
>> No. That should affect everyone trying to use GRASS from QGIS and/or  
>> mrsid with
>> GDAL.
>>
>>>> qgis-dev should already work.
>>
>>> additionally installed dev: no grass there wouldn't be so grave, if i  
>>> only
>>> had the slightest idea how to work with grass from within grass ;)
>>
>> Appears to work fine here.  But I still don't use it. ;)
>>
>>
>> Jürgen
>>
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