[Qgis-user] [GRASS-user] QGIS - GRASS Plugin not loading

[Blumentrath, Stefan]

Just a swift note:
I saw that yesterday`s nightly build on OSGeo4W seems to be numbered incorrectly and has 0 byte...
 http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/x86/release/qgis/qgis-dev/

Cheers
Stefan

-----Original Message-----
From: Qgis-user [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Blumentrath, Stefan
Sent: 5. februar 2016 19:48
To: Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de>; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: De Stefano, Matteo <matteo.destefano at nina.no>
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] [GRASS-user] QGIS - GRASS Plugin not loading

Hi Jürgen,

Many thanks for clarification! That`s cool.

Cheers,
Stefan

P.S.: Wieder was gelernt ;-)!

-----Original Message-----
From: Qgis-user [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jürgen E. Fischer
Sent: 5. februar 2016 18:13
To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] [GRASS-user] QGIS - GRASS Plugin not loading

Hi Stefan,

On Fri, 05. Feb 2016 at 11:43:07 +0000, Blumentrath, Stefan wrote:
> Depends how you define "stable".
> The nightlies for 2.12 are only receiving bugfixes, so they can be 
> even more "stable" than the current point release. However, also fixes 
> can in principle introduce new bugs...
> That the GRASS plugin does not install in 2.8 is simply due to the 
> fact that it first got introduced in 2.12 (see:
> http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog212/#plugins)...

Exactly.

> Anyway,I would very much like to see the GRASS integration in QGIS 
> becoming a bit more smooth. There have been several post regarding 
> problems with the installation of the plugin lately.

> Since the GRASS GIS 7.0.3 just was released: would it be possible to 
> build new packages for the different platforms?

Sure it would.  But that will happen with the next point release anyway (every
month) and meanwhile there are also the nightlies.

> Currently it is quite cumbersome, esp. on windows where I have to 
> install two QGIS versions (qgis and qgis-rel-dev, since "qgis" is the 
> dependency of the plugin and I cannot install only "qgis-rel-dev" alone).

That's wrong.   qgis-rel-dev contains the plugins.  No need to install the
plugins separately.

> In future, avoiding to build the plugin against GRASS release 
> candidates (like Martin Landa suggested for Windows) could be a solution.

Correct.  There should be a stable version that will be around for a while.

Another option is to switch to the standalone.  There you get a snapshot of a working setup (unless grass gets updated in osgeo4w after the qgis packages are uploaded, but before the standalone installer could be made).

> However, the drawback might be that, people might have to decide 
> whether they want to test the GRASS RC or keep the QGIS plugin 
> dependencies. Would it be an option to have parallel builds / packages 
> for the stable GRASS 7 and the RC (like qgis, qgis-rel-dev and qgis-dev)?

Yes, just as the daily builds of GRASS.



Jürgen

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