Hi Andreas, On Tue, 25. Feb 2014 at 16:52:11 +0000, Andreas Neumann wrote: > Perhaps mainly a question to Jürgen. > With the shorter release cycles it is more important being able to install > multiple versions in parallel to support our users. > OSGeo4W usually provides the stable release (now 2.2) and the dev version > (now 2.3). I'd like to have version 2.0 as well - as our users are still on > 2.0 of course and I need to see how 2.0 behaves. Is there any way the OSGeo4W > installer could provide that? Would this be complicated to add?
Sound doable - we've had previous package with the version number in the package name, eg. qgis1.1. That essentially all it takes. Of course that also requires that the files are installed into separate directories - but the packaging scripts are already able to do that. But it breaks the upgrade path. But that could also be fixes by makeing the qgis package a meta package that depends on the current version (although the previous version would live on without being replaced). But do we really need that? We also have the standalone installers that already are a snapshots of the previous versions in OSGeo4W and can be installed in parallel to OSGeo4W. That would also take care of the problem that older versions might need a rebuild if something in OSGeo4W changes. 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 http://www.norbit.de QGIS PSC member (RM) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode -- norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user