[QGIS-Developer] Settings migration from QGIS 2 to 3

[Stefan Blumentrath]

Dear all,

I am really looking forward to seeing all QGIS configuration in ini-files and that registry will be abandoned on Windows in QGIS 3!
That will be a great improvement, esp. from a sys-admin perspective!

In this consolidation context I was wondering I would be possible to prepare for:

-          Use of relative path (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/12623)

-          Usage of variables in the ini file

I have been earlier thinking about “versioning” of ini files, so that updates (e.g. changes in OWS URLs) can be passed to all users as a sort of “diff/merge” without damaging individual adjustments they might have made.
Background is that the Norwegian mapping authority provides a “Service feed” (https://register.geonorge.no/register/tjenestevarsler) where all OWS changes are announced… I would love to be able to just apply those changes to all our users…

No idea if such a thing could be fostered by the way settings are stored in the ini files?

Cheers
Stefan

From: QGIS-Developer [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Woodrow
Sent: mandag 30. oktober 2017 15.27
To: Borys Jurgiel <lists at borysjurgiel.pl>
Cc: Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net>; qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [QGIS-Developer] Settings migration from QGIS 2 to 3

Ah right.  I'm happy with whatever there.

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:25 AM, Borys Jurgiel <lists at borysjurgiel.pl<mailto:lists at borysjurgiel.pl>> wrote:
Dnia wtorek, 31 października 2017 00:19:49 Nathan Woodrow pisze:
> Hey,
>
> > There are over 100 keys there, are we going to migrate them all from
>
> Windows
> to windows, like we did with Qgis -> qgis?
>
> No I don't think we need to do anything for those subgroups, dropping the
> Windows placement between version isn't a big deal.  The main core things
> to migrate is stuff that is a pain to setup again.

Sorry I was unclear. I didn't mean migrating the values, just changing the
section for all these keys.

Regards,
Borys

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