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

[Nathan Woodrow]

Very much agree. Thanks for taking it on

On Tue., 21 Jan. 2020, 12:57 pm Mathieu Pellerin, <nirvn.asia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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