+1 to end 3.4 cycle a few months early too.

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 05:57 Nathan Woodrow <madman...@gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 on dropping support early as the risk is large on breaking the users
> experience with a LTR
>
> On Thu., 28 Nov. 2019, 8:55 am Even Rouault, <even.roua...@spatialys.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > I think the issues are deeper then the crashes/projection failures
>> > fixed by the GDAL/proj cherry-picked commits.
>>
>> Yes, actually QGIS 3.4 should not be affected by the PROJ fix, because
>> it
>> uses the old pj_transform() API with doesn't trigger that code path at
>> all.
>> But it *is* affected by exportToProj4() no longer returning +datum or
>> +towgs84
>> in cases where it used to be, which basically makes working with anything
>> !=
>> WGS 84 fundamentaly broken. The only "fix" would be to backport the fully
>> fledged PROJ 6 support of 3.10 which is obviously unreasonable to do in
>> 3.4
>>
>> > think we SHOULD drop
>> > Windows LTR support early rather than releasing a 3.4 build based on
>> > proj6/gdal3.
>>
>> +1
>>
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