[QGIS-Developer] Fwd: Urgent: Remove windows 3.10.2 installer from site

[Paolo Cavallini]

Fully agreed. Mathieu, would you like to write it?
Thanks.

On 21 January 2020 06:39:08 GMT+04:00, Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com> wrote:
>+100 on all that's been said here.
>
>Also, once 3.10.2 is updated to include the updated packages &
>above-referred fix, I'd suggest writing a QGIS.org blog post to inform
>users of the worthiness of updating to 3.10.2(.2) *ASAP*, and expand a
>bit
>on why 3.10.0/.1 were such rough releases. We can finish the post by
>thanking users that have reported bugs (an inevitable nightmare to go
>through as QGIS was exposing brand new GDAL3/PROJ6 versions to the
>masses).
>IMHO, we should not skip this communication to our users.
>
>On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 7:27 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Also, we better wait for a fix for
>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/33902 (incoming)...
>>
>> Gosh, will the nightmare ever end... Let's agree never to change
>> anything in gdal or proj or qgis ever again ;)
>>
>> Nyall
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 06:28
>> Subject: Urgent: Remove windows 3.10.2 installer from site
>> To: qgis-developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
>>
>>
>> Can we please remove the 3.10.2 installer from the website as a
>matter
>> of urgency? This installer was released using the older gdal 3.0.2
>and
>> proj 6.2 versions, which directly lead to crashes and reprojection
>> failures in QGIS.
>>
>> QGIS ********************SHOULD NEVER EVER*********************** be
>> used with gdal >= 3 and gdal < 3.0.3 or proj >6 and proj < 6.3.0.
>>
>> This combination is a world of hurt for users :(
>>
>> Tickets filed at https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/618, and
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/617, and later today I'm going
>> to commit cmake blocks which will completely prevent compilation
>under
>> the affected gdal/proj versions.
>>
>> Nyall
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