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

[Mathieu Pellerin]

Sure, I can draft something by the end of the day.

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:56 AM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
wrote:

> 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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> Please excuse my brevity.
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