[Qgis-user] Where to get a current build without using OSGeo4W

[Jonathan Moules]

On 26 April 2013 07:04, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:

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> Il 25/04/2013 16:38, Jonathan Moules ha scritto:
> > Thanks Both. It's blocked by web-sense; it doesn't like the Curl
> component ("proxy
> > avoidance" - pah). I tried downloading it separately at home and
> bringing it in but
> > to no avail.
>
> I do not see why this shouldn't work.
>
Me neither, but it didn't.


>
> > I must admit, it would be nice if QGIS released more intermediate stable
> builds (i.e.
> > patches), rather than force folks to get nightly builds for bug fixes.
>
> Intermediate builds are not stable by definition. In principle there is no
> problem in
> releasing (e.g. monthly) standalones for qgis-dev, but it must be made
> clear that
> they are previews, not production ready.
>

To clarify - I mean more builds that actually have patches and stuff. Not a
sub-set of "new" features from the next version.
So for instance, currently QGIS does this:
1.8.0 - June 2012
2.x - future (201?)

And that's it. If I want fixes for any of the numerous bugs in 1.8.0, many
of which have been fixed, I have to use an unstable, unsupported build
(i.e., NextGIS). For personal use I have no issue using such a build, but I
can't really justify it at a corporate level.
What many other projects do is they provide intermittent point releases
which fix the more egregious bugs. New features still only come in the
major releases (1.7, 1.8, 2.0 etc.).

Hope that clarifies.
Jonathan





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