[QGIS-Developer] Offering QGIS installers through Windows store

[Alexandre Neto]

Regarding conda-forge,

Qt update wait was quite unfortunate, but other than that the community is
generally quite responsive.

Currently QGIS stable and LTR versions are being built for Windows, Mac OS
and Linux with Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11.

Alexandre Neto

A terça, 20/12/2022, 10:02, Matthias Kuhn via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> escreveu:

> Hi all,
>
> I have had quite good experience with vcpkg for packaging qfield [1] (and
> remember waiting for months for qt updates on conda), we are also
> considering this for building mac packages.
> Furthermore, there are many dependencies already prepared for UWP as first
> class citizen.
>
> If a change of the build system is something to be discussed, I think a
> review of available systems would be good.
>
> Matthias
>
> [1]
> https://www.opengis.ch/2022/09/20/how-we-build-qfield-for-many-platforms-a-look-behind-the-curtain/
>
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 11:23 PM Even Rouault via QGIS-Developer <
> qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've said it a few times, but I'll repeat myself one more time as it
>> can't hurt :-) I'd strongly advise for QGIS Windows installer to rely on
>> the massive Conda-Forge packaging effort. OSGeo4W is a bit of a
>> masochist effort when one sees that it packages everything from scratch,
>> a bit like if QGIS would take the responsibility of creating a Linux
>> distro from scratch, whereas leveraging Conda-Forge would enable QGIS to
>> benefit from > 90% of its dependencies already packages by a much bigger
>> community. The QGIS community could then concentrate on the QGIS build
>> recipee, and probably a few other packages specific to QGIS. Then the
>> QGIS installer itself would mostly bundle a subset of Conda-Forge
>> dependencies pinned at the wished versions.
>>
>> Even
>>
>> Le 16/12/2022 à 16:59, Julien Moura via QGIS-Developer a écrit :
>> > 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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