Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer <[email protected]> writes:
> Well, we already have quite a user friendly existing workflow in place > for advising the user when they should have a grid shift file that > isn't currently installed, and a friendly automated GUI based approach > for doing the download and install. > > So IMO we could rip out all the shift files from the installer and > fallback to this for everyone. The only downside would be that it > relies on internet access, and the download would happen once per user > (as opposed to once per organisation if they're bundled). In pkgsrc, we have proj, which is the code w/o grids, capable of using the proj CDN, and we have proj-data, which is over 1 GB. qgis has nothing to do with whether proj-data is installed. I think being able to operate offline is important. That can be for security purposes, or because you are someplace without Internet or with a very thin or expensive pipe. I'm not really clear on "installer" and if that's sort of it's own packaging system, but I'm assuming it's not just qgis but everything it depends on that isn't part of the base OS, for some small set of OSes :-) It seems obvious that it would be sensible to have the main installer not have grid shift files and to have a second installer that only has grid shift files (or also similar bits for other things in the qgis world), so that if you have also installed the "data for offline use" thing, then qgis can access grids w/o doing network. It is less obvious to me that this "two installers, not colliding, but cooperating" is workable. _______________________________________________ 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
