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On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Greg Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > Tim, > That is great. Thanks. Note: Please keep discussions on list. Regarding your message below, I am happy to delay for a week or so, but at some point the release will have to go out so please dont consider my previous message a committment to indefinately delay the release - we will make the release when there is sufficient concensus to do so - hopefully with your fix included. Regards Tim > Below is a quick review, beginning with my initial report on Jan 4, 2010 > about the Qgis slow start up issue. > Basically, Qgis originally started up fast, then slow, then fast, then slow, > then fast, apparently because some code has been added and removed, multiple > times, to the Qgis code that gets compiled > Greg > > On Jan 4, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Greg Coats initially reported the Qgis slow start > up problem, with Qgis 1.3. > > On Jan 22, 2010, at 4:28 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote that the Qgis slow start > up was a detrimental "side effect of my changes for large format printing." > > On Jan 22, 2010, at 5:57 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote "r12815 contains a fix > for the multiband display problem." > > On Jan 22, 2010, at 9:58 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote that Marco's r12815 > "fixed the speed problem opening Greg's sample project!" > > A few days later, Qgis officially announced their decision to release Qgis > 1.4 anyway, with the slow start up problem, but Qgis made a commitment to not > release Qgis 1.5 with the slow start up problem. > > On Jul 2, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Greg Coats wrote that > Qgis r13519 opens the Qgis project in 2 seconds > Qgis r13597 opens the Qgis project in 360 seconds > Qgis r13878 opens the Qgis project in 400 seconds > I was disappointed to see that the slow start up problem had return to Qgis, > after it had been eliminated 5 months ago. > > On Jul 5, 2010, at 1:51 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote that the slow start up > was directly attributable to re-adding in r13750 the code that was originally > shown to have caused the slow start up. > > On Jul 8, 2010, at 7:12 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote that he had again removed > the code that causes the slow start up, and so Qgis r13899 does not have the > slow start up problem. > > On Jul 10, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Tim Sutton wrote that it is OK to delay the > release of Qgis 1.5, so that it does not have that the slow start problem. I > am pleased with this decision. > Greg > > On Jul 10, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Tim Sutton wrote: > >> Hi Guys >> >> Sorry for the delay. Seems ok to change it - some people will just get >> english. Though its strange that that is causing his project slowdown >> since the legend preview stuff has been in QGIS for many versions now. >> >> Regards >> >> Tim > > -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) ============================================== Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net ============================================== _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
