#30933: Update installation instructions for GeoDjango dependencies on Windows.
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Reporter: Adam Starrh | Owner: nobody
Type: | Status: new
Cleanup/optimization |
Component: Documentation | Version: 2.2
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: geodjango, | Triage Stage: Accepted
installation, windows |
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 1
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Old description:
> ~~I'm setting GeoDjango up on Windows and discovered that GDAL is (at
> least currently) incompatible with 64-bit Python. Using 32-bit Python and
> 32-bit OSGeo4Win, I was finally able to get it working. I suggest this be
> mentioned in the docs to circumvent future headaches for other users.~~
>
> ~~Pull request:
> https://github.com/django/django/pull/11995~~
>
> ----
>
> The installation instructions for dependencies of !GeoDjango on Windows
> are outdated.
>
> Issues that need to be addressed include:
>
> - It seems that there may be some as yet undetermined issue wit 64-bit
> setups.
> - Not referencing only 9.x versions of PostgreSQL which are > 3 years
> old.
> - Consider referring to other geospatial database backends. Why should
> Windows users be forced to use PostGIS?
> - Replace outdated instructions for installation of psycopg2. We have
> binary wheels now that are more up to date.
> - Using !OSGeo4W can lead to a newer version of GEOS than is supported by
> Django with no option to downgrade.
> - Consider installing individual dependencies for GDAL, GEOS & Proj.
New description:
~~I'm setting GeoDjango up on Windows and discovered that GDAL is (at
least currently) incompatible with 64-bit Python. Using 32-bit Python and
32-bit OSGeo4Win, I was finally able to get it working. I suggest this be
mentioned in the docs to circumvent future headaches for other users.~~
~~Pull request:
https://github.com/django/django/pull/11995~~
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The installation instructions for dependencies of !GeoDjango on Windows
are outdated.
Issues that need to be addressed include:
- It seems that there may be some as yet undetermined issue wit 64-bit
setups.
- Not referencing only 9.x versions of PostgreSQL which are > 3 years old.
- Consider referring to other geospatial database backends. Why should
Windows users be forced to use PostGIS?
- Replace outdated instructions for installation of psycopg2. We have
binary wheels now that are more up to date.
- ~~Using OSGeo4W can lead to a newer version of GEOS than is supported by
Django with no option to downgrade.~~
- ~~Consider installing individual dependencies for GDAL, GEOS & Proj.~~
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Comment (by Nick Pope):
Replying to [comment:3 felixxm]:
> Nick, I still don't see where is an issue, except that
`http://www.stickpeople.com/projects/python/win-psycopg/` link is
outdated.
That and referring to PostgreSQL 9.x seems overly restrictive. There
haven't been a great many updates to this section of the documentation
other than cosmetic in years and my impression from my comment above is
that it could be made easier.
>> There is also a problem that you have stumbled into that OSGeo4W
installs a newer version of GDAL than Django 2.2 officially supports
> I don't think that is true, `OSGeo4W` contains: `gdal200dll`,
`gdal201dll`, `gdal202dll`, `gdal203dll` all of them are supported by
Django 2.2.
I was alluding to the comments starting at
https://github.com/django/django/pull/10962#issuecomment-548004287, but if
it installs the older versions too, then ...
> It can be hard to fix an issue without details.
Indeed. I asked for some more details at the end...
Anyway. As I said, I don't use Windows. And I feel like I'm being
unhelpful here, so I'll back off.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/30933#comment:5>
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