[Qgis-user] Question on OSGeo4W and multiple versions

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Jürgen,

If the old standalone installers can be installed in parallel in a
different directory without a clash, I would be fine with this solution.

Thanks,
Andreas

Am 25.02.2014 17:20, schrieb Jürgen E. Fischer:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> On Tue, 25. Feb 2014 at 16:52:11 +0000, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>> Perhaps mainly a question to Jürgen.
>  
>> With the shorter release cycles it is more important being able to install
>> multiple versions in parallel to support our users.
>  
>> OSGeo4W usually provides the stable release (now 2.2) and the dev version
>> (now 2.3). I'd like to have version 2.0 as well - as our users are still on
>> 2.0 of course and I need to see how 2.0 behaves. Is there any way the OSGeo4W
>> installer could provide that? Would this be complicated to add?
> 
> Sound doable - we've had previous package with the version number in the
> package name, eg. qgis1.1.   That essentially all it takes.  Of course that
> also requires that the files are installed into separate directories - but
> the packaging scripts are already able to do that.
> 
> But it breaks the upgrade path.  But that could also be fixes by makeing the
> qgis package a meta package that depends on the current version (although the
> previous version would live on without being replaced).
> 
> But do we really need that?   We also have the standalone installers that
> already are a snapshots of the previous versions in OSGeo4W and can be
> installed in parallel to OSGeo4W.
> 
> That would also take care of the problem that older versions might need a
> rebuild if something in OSGeo4W changes.
> 
> 
> Jürgen
>  
>