[Qgis-user] Serious bug returns to Qgis revision 13878

[Tim Sutton]

Hi



On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Greg Coats <gregcoats at mac.com> wrote:
> Tim,
> That is great. Thanks.

Note: Please keep discussions on list.

Regarding your message below, I am happy to delay for a week or so,
but at some point the release will have to go out so please dont
consider my previous message a committment to indefinately delay the
release - we will make the release when there is sufficient concensus
to do so - hopefully with your fix included.

Regards

Tim

> Below is a quick review, beginning with my initial report on Jan 4, 2010 about the Qgis slow start up issue.
> Basically, Qgis originally started up fast, then slow, then fast, then slow, then fast, apparently because some code has been added and removed, multiple times, to the Qgis code that gets compiled
> Greg
>
> On Jan 4, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Greg Coats initially reported the Qgis slow start up problem, with Qgis 1.3.
>
> On Jan 22, 2010, at 4:28 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote that the Qgis slow start up was a detrimental "side effect of my changes for large format printing."
>
> On Jan 22, 2010, at 5:57 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote "r12815 contains a fix for the multiband display problem."
>
> On Jan 22, 2010, at 9:58 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote that Marco's r12815 "fixed the speed problem opening Greg's sample project!"
>
> A few days later, Qgis officially announced their decision to release Qgis 1.4 anyway, with the slow start up problem, but Qgis made a commitment to not release Qgis 1.5 with the slow start up problem.
>
> On Jul 2, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Greg Coats wrote that
> Qgis r13519 opens the Qgis project in   2 seconds
> Qgis r13597 opens the Qgis project in 360 seconds
> Qgis r13878 opens the Qgis project in 400 seconds
> I was disappointed to see that the slow start up problem had return to Qgis, after it had been eliminated 5 months ago.
>
> On Jul 5, 2010, at 1:51 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote that the slow start up was directly attributable to re-adding in r13750 the code that was originally shown to have caused the slow start up.
>
> On Jul 8, 2010, at 7:12 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote that he had again removed the code that causes the slow start up, and so Qgis r13899 does not have the slow start up problem.
>
> On Jul 10, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Tim Sutton wrote that it is OK to delay the release of Qgis 1.5, so that it does not have that the slow start problem. I am pleased with this decision.
> Greg
>
> On Jul 10, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> Sorry for the delay. Seems ok to change it - some people will just get
>> english. Though its strange that that is causing his project slowdown
>> since the legend preview stuff has been in QGIS for many versions now.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>
>



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