[QGIS-Developer] LTR management [was Re: Delaying 3.10.1?]

[Nathan Woodrow]

+1 on dropping support early as the risk is large on breaking the users
experience with a LTR

On Thu., 28 Nov. 2019, 8:55 am Even Rouault, <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> > I think the issues are deeper then the crashes/projection failures
> > fixed by the GDAL/proj cherry-picked commits.
>
> Yes, actually QGIS 3.4 should not be affected by the PROJ fix, because it
> uses the old pj_transform() API with doesn't trigger that code path at
> all.
> But it *is* affected by exportToProj4() no longer returning +datum or
> +towgs84
> in cases where it used to be, which basically makes working with anything
> !=
> WGS 84 fundamentaly broken. The only "fix" would be to backport the fully
> fledged PROJ 6 support of 3.10 which is obviously unreasonable to do in 3.4
>
> > think we SHOULD drop
> > Windows LTR support early rather than releasing a 3.4 build based on
> > proj6/gdal3.
>
> +1
>
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