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

[Régis Haubourg]

We would need to have a parameter to set the download location, as http or
file resource so that remote site with no internet available can still
install QGIS then...

Le jeu. 19 mars 2020 à 07:53, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> 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
>
> >
> >
> > Jürgen
> >
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