[Qgis-developer] 1.6.0 qml files vs. 1.7.3

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi Jim,

as far as I remember this bug was fixed in master, but not backported.
I just find this commit and backport it to the 1_7 and 1_8 branches, so
next bugfix release will solve this issue.

2011/12/19 Jim Hammack <hammack at gotslack.org>:
> This issue may have been around for a while, but I just ran into it.  I have
> some shapefiles for which I created .qml files in the past using
> 1.6.0-Copiapo.  The shapefiles and the .qml files reside in the same
> directory.   When I try to load these shapefiles with 1.7.3 ($ qgis
> fred.shp) , I get this error:
>
> Fatal: ASSERT: "pfi.exists()" in file
> /jah/qgis-1.7.3/src/core/qgsproject.cpp, line 1382
> Aborted
>
> and QGIS goes away.
>
> Looking at the code, I see:
>
>    // so this one isn't absolute, but also doesn't start // with ./ or ../.
>    // That means that it was saved with an earlier version of "relative path
> support",
>    // where the source file had to exist and only the project directory was
> stripped
>    // from the filename.
>    QFileInfo pfi( fileName() );
>    Q_ASSERT( pfi.exists() );
>
> Deleting the .qml file allows the shapefile to be loaded so it's not a huge
> problem, but it took me a few minutes to figure out what was causing the
> crash.
>
> Wouldn't a warning dialog be more appropriate here than a full abort?

-- 
Alexander Bruy