[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] QGIS LTR releases -- is it time to pull the plug?

[Andrea Giudiceandrea]

Il 16/11/2021 12:00, Bo Victor Thomsen ha scritto:

>   * The quagmire of ver. 3.16... Isn't it a combination of a relatively
>     old version of QGIS fine tuned to a set of support libraries, where
>     the support libraries gets upgraded "an masse" because OsGeo4W gets
>     upgraded from v1 to v2.; SIP gets upgraded from v4 to v6. And the
>     proj library goes through several upgrades from v4 to v8 ?

I'll add Python from 3.7 to 3.9-3.10 and Qt from 5.11 (without ICU) to 
5.15 (with ICU).

Anyway QGIS LTR 3.16 is still available trough the old OSGeo4W v1 with 
the previous dependencies.

Why don't offer the download of QGIS LTR 3.16 from OSGeo4W v1 as first 
choice, instead of from OSGeo4W v2?

The recent issues don't occur in the QGIS LTR 3.16 installers (both 
"Standalone" and "Network") from OSGeo4W v1.

Regards.

Andrea