[Qgis-developer] Call for packaging: QGIS 1.7.2

[Ramon Andiñach]

Sorry Werner, I ment to put this on the list.

Comments at the bottom.

-ramon.

On 20/11/2011, at 10:03 , Ramon Andiñach wrote:

> 
> On 13/11/2011, at 20:05 , Werner Macho wrote:
> 
>> Hi Folks
>> 
>> Today I have branched QGIS version release-1_7_2 - the second maintenance
>> release on the 1.7.x branch.
>> 
>> The source tarball is here:
>> http://qgis.org/downloads/qgis-1.7.2.tar.bz2
>> and the md5 checksum is here:
>> http://qgis.org/downloads/qgis-1.7.2.tar.bz2.md5
>> 
>> You can check out this branch (depending on your personal settings) using:
>> 
>> git fetch origin
>> git branch --track release-1_7_2 origin/release-1_7_2
>> 
>> If packagers would be so kind as to update http://download.qgis.org
>> with links to their latest wares, it will be appreciated. I'll give a
>> few days (and until we have Windows binaries at minimum) before making
>> the announcement to the world.
>> 
>> Please note that I have reinstated maintenance of the CHANGELOG file
>> in the root of the source tree, so consult that (or the
>> help->about->whats new? tab after building) to see what changes were
>> made. Some of the last minute commits will not be mentioned there.
>> There are no new features in the release, only bug fixes and small
>> tweaks.
>> 
>> This will be the last 1.7.x release.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is totally relevant, but I'm going to point out that on the OSGEO versions of the Windows install, qgis-dev recently took to using GRASS RC2. This carefully uninstalled RC1, causing a non-fatal error in the qgis.bat file.
> 
> If the 1.7.2 branch happened after that point (and I'm not sure on the timing - which is why I'm not sure it's relevant) then the qgis.bat file needs updating to reflect this.
> 
> -ramon.