Hi Jürgen! Thanks for all that great work! Are there any instructions on how to use the scripts to build the packages?
Did you consider building a python gdal/proj package that could be installed on the normal python distribution as well as on OSGeo4W? Idan On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, 18:36 Jürgen E. Fischer, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm happy to announce that the QGIS packages of 3.16.4 (LTR) 'Hannover' > and the > our latest release 3.18.0 'Zürich' are ready on > https://qgis.org/de/site/forusers/download.html. This includes Linux, > Mac and > Windows packages. With the availability of a new regular release the > current > long-term release 3.16 replaces the previous long-term release 3.10 in the > long > term package repositories. > > The Windows standalone installer are as usual made from the OSGeo4W > packages. > > In OSGeo4W there has lately been a big effort to reboot it, meaning that > it has > been completely rebuilt using newer source versions of mostly every > package > using a newer compiler. As this happened shortly before the QGIS release > the > new packages are still in a separate repository for testing. > > You can install them using the osgeo4w installer on > http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/testing/osgeo4w-setup.exe (note the > testing - > the old installer will also work, if you point it to the new site, but it > will > default to the old). > > Within the reboot a lot of old packages were dropped (including > dependencies to > old microsoft runtimes), new packages were introduced and also package > names > were revised. > > Long story short: you cannot upgrade from old installs and have to remove > and > reinstall or use a separate directory. As the new OSGeo4W only supports > 64bit > the default root directory was changed to C:\OSGeo4W, which might help with > that if you were on 64bit earlier. > > Also note that it now only has one version of Python - namely 3.9, which > doesn't support Windows 7 anymore. Other updates include Qt 5.15, GDAL > 3.2, > PROJ 7.2 and SAGA 7.8. > > It also has PDAL 2.2 which is required for native support of point clouds > in > QGIS - something that you find lacking in the "old" OSGeo4W repository and > in > turn in the current standalones. > > The new installer also doesn't require administrator privileges anymore. > Unless you run it elevated (ie. as Administrator) the option to create > shortcuts for all users will be unavailable. > > The testing repository will eventually replace the old repository and also > be > used to make standalone installers. As it has grown to exceed the 2GB > limit > of NSIS the standalone installers will then be switched to MSI. > > The package recipes currently reside at https://github.com/jef-n/OSGeo4W. > > Please test and report packaging issues to the OSGeo4W TRAC at > https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w. > > > > Jürgen > > -- > Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31 > Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 > Software Engineer D-26506 Norden > https://www.norbit.de > QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode > _______________________________________________ > osgeo4w-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeo4w-dev >
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