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

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Even,

Testing PROJ_USER_WRITABLE_DIRECTORY has went well, it works on Windows 
with custom paths (for projsync & cache.db location).  I believe we 
should upgrade this env variable for the next PROJ release.

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
>>
>>
>>


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