For the record, according to schedule, 3.4 reaches its end of life on February 21st, 2010.
On Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 15:11 Andreas Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks all for the discussion. > > I would like to hear Jürgen's opinion on it was well. If possible, I would > also prefer Matthias approach. Our organization just recently introduced > 3.4 LTR (I know we are late ;-), we will probably move to 3.10 in mid > 2020). It would be nice if the support of the 3.4 release could be a bit > longer, until 3.10 takes over as LTR version. > > QGIS.ORG can fund Jürgen for this extra work for supporting two library > versions in parallel, if Jürgen thinks this can be done with a reasonable > amount of work (whatever this means ;-) ) > > Thanks, > > Andreas > > On 2019-11-28 09:02, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > > Hi all, > > I enjoy reading the discussion on this tricky topic. Thank you for looking > into this! > > What would be the precise plan of action? > > The situation is, a new QGIS 3.4.13 release based on gdal3/proj6 is out > already. We cannot make that undone unless we get out the message to forget > that 3.4.13 ever existed and ask everyone to reinstall 3.4.12. > > I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to setup a system somewhere to build > with the old gdal and proj libraries to create the remaining standalone > installers to push out the remaining three 3.4 releases (manually). With > LTR we have built a brand with a very good reputation and I think we should > protect this label and avoid any controversial communication if reasonably > possible. > > It's possible that I am underestimating the work which would be required > to do this, but in my opinion this would be a good opportunity to do an > ad-hoc investment into Jürgen (given that he has some of his precious time > left to actually work on this and that he does not completely disagree with > me). > > Best regards > > Matthias > On 11/28/19 1:47 AM, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > > Just have to make sure we communicate this via the blog and why. > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 10:38 AM Mathieu Pellerin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > +1 to end 3.4 cycle a few months early too. > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 05:57 Nathan Woodrow <[email protected]> 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, <[email protected]> > 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 > > -- > Spatialys - Geospatial professional services > http://www.spatialys.com > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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