[Ubuntu] A new QGIS 2.0

[Alex Mandel]

On 02/17/2014 02:40 PM, Randal Hale wrote:
> That works. Maybe the bug was with gdal 1.10 or something. It doesn't
> seem to be hanging with 1.7 - Anywho - I appreciate the info.
> 
Hmm, if you used the qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly it should be gdal 1.10
Unless you didn't clear out stuff first as the instructions indicate.

> No worries - I think 2.2 is pretty close...I think.
> 
> I was always under the impression (and probably wrong) that 2.0.1 should
> be in stable and 2.2 should be in unstable. I think there was some
> chatter about that on the list at one point. BUT - today I've been wrong
> about most everything (ha).
> 

Yes, once released 2.2 goes to unstable, 2.0.1 moves to stable, 1.8 gets
pushed out from anything 12.04 and newer (not sure about 10.04).

Thanks,
Alex

> Thanks,
> Randy
> 
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> On 02/17/2014 05:19 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
>> On 02/17/2014 01:24 PM, Randal Hale wrote:
>>> I was wondering if it would be possible (I know there's been a lot of
>>> talk about the repositories) to get a new(er) version of QGIS 2.0.
>>> There's a bug with spatialite (takes minutes to build a database) and
>>> you don't get that with the QGIS repos...but QGIS is compiled against
>>> gdal 1.7.3 and I would really like to keep 1.10. Sorry for asking - I
>>> should be trying to compile my own but that always seems to end not
>>> great.
>>>
>>> I know QGIS 2.2 is coming out shortly - but it would be pretty cool if
>>> this could be updated.
>>>
>>> Randy
>>>
>> Short answer is no, reason is that the ppa contains released versions of
>> QGIS. There is no official release greater than 2.0.1
>>
>> When 2.2 comes out it will make it's way into unstable and likely 2.0.x
>> will get moved down to stable.
>>
>> Now if you look at the qgis.org download page this is probably what you
>> want "QGIS testing via ubuntugis", "...nightly builds that depend on
>> updated dependencies found in ubuntugis."
>> http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#id2
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>