[QGIS-Developer] The build of weekly snapshots stopped in February

[Nyall Dawson]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 16:49, Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrea,
>
> On Wed, 18. Mar 2020 at 16:18:39 -0700, Andrea Giudiceandrea wrote:
> > it seems that the build of the weekly snapshots of qgis-dev from OSGeo4W as
> > standalone installer for Windows stopped in February: the last one is
> > QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.11.0-8 25-Feb-2020.
>
> Yes. proj-dev-data is to huge for NSIS.  Best install via OSGeo4W until grids
> are downloadable via proj.

There's no plans to use proj 7's built in auto grid download. This
isn't designed for GUI applications like QGIS -- if we did, we'd get
UI hangs all over the place while QGIS is trying to transform
coordinates, and proj blocks and waits for the download to occur.

What we should instead do is just fire up a background task on first
install to download ALL THE GRIDS FOR EVERYWHERE form the proj CDN and
install them locally. Problem solved.... FOREVER! ;)

Nyall

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> Jürgen
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