[Qgis-community-team] Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [work] Re: QGIS windows build - Alaska dataset

[Otto Dassau]

Hi Marco and Tara,

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:52:15 +0200
"Marco Pasetti" <marcopstt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Otto,
> 
> > I did following change now at http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/data/
> >
> > - qgis_sample_data.tar.gz -> 20080329_qgis_sample_data.tar.gz
> >  (according to the last modified date on the server)
> > - qgis_data_2008_09_15.tar.gz -> latest_qgis_sample_data.tar.gz
> >
> > If we update the dataset again, I would propose to rename the
> > latest_qgis_sample_data.tar.gz to 20080915_qgis_sample_data.tar.gz (again
> > according to the last modified date on the server) and name the updated 
> > dataset
> > always latest_qgis_sample_data.tar.gz.
> >
> > This would need once a small change in the windows and probably mac 
> > installer,
> > but then it would be clear, which version people should download. Hope 
> > this
> > is ok for you...
> 
> that's fine for me. But there's a small problem though. To avoid continuos 
> changes in the installer script, every time the data set is updated, it 
> would be better for me if the unpacked name of the folder would be the same 
> of the tar.gz file . Could you do that change?

ok, I renamed the unpacked folder to latest_qgis_sample_data for now. But I
think we should wait and see what Tara thinks about it, before we make the
change fix, because she created and manages the new dataset, so she should
decide.

regards,
 Otto

> Regards,
> 
> Marco