[Qgis-user] QGIS 3.18.0 and QGIS 3.14.4 (LTR) packages released and OSGeo4W reboot

[C Hamilton]

I am slow in responding to this, but I work with users that often do not
have direct access to the Internet so it is very important that the
installers provide all the data and not require some additional download
especially if that additional download would require system admin
privileges.

Calvin

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 3:27 PM Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de> wrote:

> Hi Jorge,
>
> On Sat, 27. Feb 2021 at 17:00:09 +0000, Jorge Gustavo Rocha wrote:
> > Maybe Nyall can provide more details, but I think this is supported on
> > QGIS side. As Greg said, this might not be friendly for offline users,
> > but would help us to have smaller packages for Windows users.
>
> But is size an issue?   I mean if it really was people would not be
> insisting
> on a single huge blob installer, if there is a way to update just the newer
> bits through the osgeo4w installer (ignoring that wouldn't work for the
> current
> transition either).
>
> Anyway, IIRC the proj downloads would need to happen transparently as the
> transformation does - possibly coordinated between several threads that
> etc.pp.
> And there was no easy take on that.
>
>
> Jürgen
>
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