[QGIS-Developer] Offering QGIS installers through Windows store

[Julien Moura]

Hello,

I'm working on the packaging purpose at Oslandia.

Because we are committed to pushing QGIS in the most industrial 
information systems, at Oslandia we have been very interested in QGIS 
deployment for a few years now.

We have reused and actively contributed to many projects: OSGeo4W v1 
mirror, NSIS and PowerShell recipes, presentations at FOSS4Gs (or at 
QGIS conferences), etc.

Since this year, we are making efforts to de-correlate software 
deployment and end-user configurations (profiles): the QGIS Deployment 
Toolbelt (https://guts.github.io/qgis-deployment-cli/) has been created 
with this goal. It is still a young project and also it is one project 
among many others.

We are obviously very interested in this project of packaging QGIS on 
Windows Store, a topic that we already discussed internally last year 
and that I discussed namely with Régis Haubourg in Florence. We 
obviously have some question marks and discussion points to make sure 
that all the process is in line with community and open-source 
governance. Still, it will be quite a challenge and we think it is a 
good direction to follow.

As noted by others, this seems a huge undertaking though, and 
uncertainty paves the road and make this goal a distant future.

We could start with gathering and referencing all resources dedicated to 
packaging, which would sum up as a website ( packaging.qgis.org ?) with 
all documentation regarding OSGeo4W recipes ( beyond the aging OSGeo 
trac ), and other packaging methods, like customized .deb packaging.

The goal is to structure and promote knowledge on this topic to attract 
packager in addition to developers.

And then we would also create packaging process documentation for 
Windows Store.

Regards,
Julien M

Le 23/11/2022 à 10:41, Even Rouault via QGIS-Developer a écrit :
>>
>> - There is a requirement for every library in the package to be "UWP 
>> compatible".
>>   At that time, libpq (postgresql) didn't have that, so I stopped. 
>> It's hard to say how many other packages will also need special 
>> attention. [1]
>
> Interesting. I know that people have contributed in the past fixes to 
> make PROJ *compilable* with UWP, but as we don't have a CI target for 
> that, it is unknown how it behaves at runtime.
>
> GDAL likely fails to build with UWP according to 
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/1201
>
> Without a CI target that can be hooked into github action (maybe that 
> exists. didn't check), UWP compatibility on the long term is going to 
> be hard to achieve.
>
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