[QGIS-Developer] QEP: Projects in PostgreSQL

[Nathan Woodrow]

>
> this is always a huge issue with us since we work a lot in areas with very
> poor or no internet connection thus projects have to be loaded on our
> personal computers or external hardrives.
> also when you give a session to a client you always have to go into the
> project file and change the directory names.


Hey Syd,

QGIS has the option (on by default) to save as everything as relative paths
which is better to make projects portable

- Nathan.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:17 PM, Syd Visser <sydv at sjgeophysics.com> wrote:

> Martin
>
> a general comment on
>
> “All references to files will be saved as absolute paths “
>
>
> why does things have to be absolute path especially if you eventually will
> design for Geopackage that is suppose to simplify portability
>
> can the Path not be divided into two separate names
>
> 1) one that is easily changed like a computer home directory which changes
> depending on computer used
>
> 2) project and all of its sub-directories that should not change
>
> this is always a huge issue with us since we work a lot in areas with very
> poor or no internet connection thus projects have to be loaded on our
> personal computers or external hardrives.
>
> also when you give a session to a client you always have to go into the
> project file and change the directory names.
>
> QGIS is not the only program that has this issue and i never quite
> understood why it was done this way maybe there is a explanation besides
> its simpler for programers.
>
> thanks
>
> Syd
>
>
> *Syd (Sipke) Visser, P.Geo.*
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>
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> On 2018-03-19 07:09 AM, Martin Dobias wrote:
>
> Hi everyone
>
> Here is a new proposal to add support for storage of QGIS projects
> inside PostgreSQL (and possibly in other backends in the future):
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/118
>
> Any comments would be highly appreciated!
>
> Cheers
> Martin
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