Haaa laughing of myself :)

Sorry for the noise.

Bien cordialement,
Régis Haubourg

On 24/03/2026 12:02, Nyall Dawson wrote:


On Tue, 24 Mar 2026, 8:02 pm Régis Haubourg via QGIS-Developer, <[email protected]> wrote:

    Maybe we could add a mechanism where proj grid files can be
    imported to the user profile, so any user could download grids.


Well, we already have https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/31622

Is that what you mean?

Nyall

    Some caveats to avoid with multi profile management. I'd be in
    favor of storing proj grids once per user $APPDATA profile, not in
    each QGIS profile

    Bien cordialement,
    Régis Haubourg

    On 24/03/2026 10:29, Matthias Kuhn via QGIS-Developer wrote:
    Hi all,

    Thanks for raising this discussion, Tim.
    There recently was a discussion about that on a github issue.
    The new macOS packages didn't ship grid packages out of the box
    in the beginning and this was a blocker for some users so I ended
    up bundling the data files again with the macOS packages. The
    full discussion can be seen here
    https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/64486

    Key takeaways for me: If we want to split this apart, we need to
    make it very easy for users to install missing bits, the current
    process would need some improvements. If this is shipped as a
    separate installer package, we need to make sure it works across
    all platforms.

    Kind regards
    Matthias

    On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 9:33 AM Alexander Bruy via QGIS-Developer
    <[email protected]> wrote:

        If I'm not wrong, our standalone installer is based on the
        OSGeo4W and installs the latter. So users can easily
        use the OSGeo4W installer to download any additional
        dependencies they want/need.

        Another option would be to add an option to the
        standalone installer to download grids, similarly to what we had
        in the old NSIS installer for Alaska dataset.

        пн, 23 бер. 2026 р. о 09:20 Tim Sutton via QGIS-Developer
        <[email protected]> пише:

            Hi all

            Here in the infrastructure management club for QGIS we
            have been embarking on a plan to slowly divest ourselves
            of 'big tech'. At the end of last year we switched off
            cloudflare CDN and implemented our own caching servers.
            At that time we were doing around 130TB of throughput
            (including what was being soaked up by Cloudflare). As of
            last month we did 430TB of throughput without the help of
            Cloudflare.

            We are trying to optimise costs - that bandwidth alone
            cost us in the neighbourhood of 500€ per month. To reduce
            costs we can approach the problem in two way:

            1. optimise the infrastructure - we (QGIS Devops team)
            are busy looking into ways to do that...
            2. reduce the download size...

            We are wondering if the datum shift files could be split
            out from the main installer and fetched as an optional
            extra? Or maybe on demand as you need them? We could set
            up some infrastructure for hosting them, but we would
            need some help on the application side to implement logic
            to go and grab shift files that are not locally cached.
            Is anyone able to help with this?

            Regards

            Tim




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