[Qgis-developer] Release naming and path problems

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 15-07-16 08:02, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Seems the name of the release is causing a few issues on Windows installs:
> 
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/202222/qgis-2-16-n%C3%B8debo-libintl-8-dll-missing
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/201657/problem-installing-new-version-of-qgis-under-windoss-10-64-bits/202200#202200
> etc
> 
> Are we planning on keeping the unicode name for the folder name?  Could
> we use something else with doesn't include unicode so we don't break too
> much.

No sure if I'm in favour of releasing the next 2.16.1 with an ascii path
'nodebo', it is probably 'work' as it is exception on the usual scripts..

Current situation 'forces' plugin authors (and us) to handle this in the
right way. I've fixed several plugins long time ago already because also
home-paths have often non-ascii chars in it (and I saved files in
home-paths....).
Having this fixed is a big plus for non-western users probably :-)

I think our release-manager must decide based on his workload/timeline.
We could add a big note on the qgis blog: "please change nødebo to
nodebo in install path if you have python/installation problems..."


> Have we done an official release yet or still resolving some issues with
> the packages?

At least on the website, the download page already linked to the 2.16.0 exe

We did not update website-banner, do blogpost, visual changelog etc etc

Are there other big issues which would require a new release? I read
something about ubuntu core dumps, and wm(t)s issues?

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde