[PROJ] PROJ 8.1.0RC1 & PROJ-data 1.7RC1

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks Even, to be more specific here is what I think I meant:

- the location of where grids are downloaded using the projsync utility 
(on Windows the default is "C:/Users/name with spaces/AppData/Local").
- the location of where the cache.db database is installed (on Windows 
the default is "C:/Users/name with spaces/AppData/Local")
- the location of the grids that cache.db points to (on Windows the 
default is "C:/Users/name with spaces/AppData/Local")

Ah, I wasn't aware of the PROJ_USER_WRITABLE_DIRECTORY but that sounds 
like exactly what I was asking about.  Will test that here now (to test 
that the grids can be downloaded to that specific directory, and 
cache.db placed there, and that cache.db looks for the grid in that 
defined directory).  Thanks!

-jeff



On 2021-06-28 1:44 p.m., Even Rouault wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> so you are talking about the location of where grids are downloaded 
> using the projsync utility or the location of the cache.db database used 
> for on-demand grid downloading ? There isn't an official env variable 
> for this, but you can nevertheless use the PROJ_USER_WRITABLE_DIRECTORY 
> env var that is for now tagged "for testing purposes only", although we 
> could probably upgrade it to a more official status.
> 
> Even
> 
> Le 28/06/2021 à 18:27, Jeff McKenna a écrit :
>> Hi Kristian,
>>
>> RC1 seems to work well on Windows (with MS4W build environment).
>>
>> I do have a question, if you don't mind me asking here.
>>
>> With 8.1.0 can I specify a location of the default path for the grid 
>> files?  (in other words, not to use on Windows the ugly/unknown/hidden 
>> path of "C:/Users/name with spaces/AppData/Local"  but to set a nicer 
>> local path with something like PROJ_NETWORK_LOCAL_DIRECTORY [set in 
>> proj.ini or through an environment variable] to a specific directory 
>> value)
>>
>> I'm sure this question has been asked & answered, so please go easy on 
>> me :)
>>
>> thanks, and hello from the east coast of Canada,
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>