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

[Even Rouault]

Hi Jeff,

please file a ticket about that

Even

Le 29/06/2021 à 14:32, Jeff McKenna a écrit :
> 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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