[QGIS-Developer] The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing

[Nyall Dawson]

On 16 December 2017 at 22:32, Patrick Dunford <enzedrailmaps at gmail.com> wrote:
> With a recent change in masters the project file format has been broken yet
> again (it seems) and now instead of recognising EPSG:3857 on project files
> that are not very old, it comes up as USER:100029
>
> Now ordinarily this wouldn't be an issue, just open project properties and
> change the CRS. Except there is a well documented bug that makes the
> software crash when you try to do this.
>
> As it's not possible in any way for me to fix this latest inability to
> recognise the CRS from the previous project file from a slightly earlier
> version of master, maybe it would be helpful to document how we could
> actually insert the CRS into the project file by hand so it is correct.
>

Patrick,

Your bug testing is very much appreciated - the way you word your
email subjects, not so.

Nyall