[PROJ] ugprade notes for 6.3.1 to 7.0.0
Greg Troxel
gdt at lexort.com
Tue Mar 10 12:21:59 PDT 2020
Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> writes:
> On 3/10/20 6:38 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> @@ -234,6 +233,7 @@ ${PLIST.grids}share/proj/ontpht1964-nzvd2016.gtx
>> +share/proj/proj.ini
>>
>> Not mentioned in NEWS.
>>
>> This looks like a config file, in which case it's in the wrong place
>> (etc vs share -- share is supposed to be read only by users).
>
> It was deemed too much work to use $sysconfdir, see:
>
> https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/issues/1979
Thanks. I ranted a bit ;-)
> As long as it's not in $sysconfdir I don't consider it a config file,
Agreed.
> hence users should make changes and expect the packaging system to
> preserve them.
I think you mean "users should not have the expectation that any changes
they make will be preserved", and if so, agreed.
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