[PROJ] PROJ 7.0.0RC1

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 2/21/20 5:00 AM, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 02:55, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On 2/17/20 10:11 PM, Kristian Evers wrote:
>>> Since this is a major release version I expect there to be issues with the first release candidate.
>>> My plan is to publish a second release candidate in a week's time around Monday the 24th. Please
>>> make sure to test the release candidates where ever you depend on PROJ and report back your
>>> findings.
>>
>> In preparation of the transition in Debian the reverse dependencies were
>> rebuilt with RC1, and some fail due to test failures. See:
>>
>>  https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2020/02/msg00004.html
> 
> "QGIS 3.10 doesn't support it yet, so may want to keep proj in
> experimental for a while until it does, or just live with it not
> supporting it fully."
> 
> Can you elaborate on this? It hasn't been widely tested, but it
> **should** still work OK under proj 7.

You argued for QGIS 3.10 releases to ship with PROJ 6 and not 7:

 https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2020-February/060259.html

Due to an issue caused by switching to the TIFF grids in PROJ 7.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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