Il 12/03/2012 22:23, Alister Hood ha scritto: > 1. It is common for QGIS plugins to have dependencies which are not readily > available for Windows (you may need to put in the effort to build them > yourself).
Not so common: can you provide examples? > 2. Plugins sometimes have Windows related problems. I guess some of the > developers don't do much testing for Windows. I do not think this is a widespread phenomenon. > 4. There seems to be a reasonable history of issues with QGIS that only > appear on > Windows, particularly problems with printing. Again, I think this is due to > the > developers not using windows. I would say many Win users do not report and follow bugs, and they are not used helping (by coding or by sponsoring) to fix them. > 5. FWIW I get a reasonable number of crashes when I try to run QGIS on 64 bit > Windows 7, and none on 32bit Windows XP. I do always run a self-compiled (on > XP) > master version of QGIS, not an official build, but I don't really see why that > would affect running on 64bit Windows 7. As you have seen though, some people > report no trouble on Windows 7. I think these are local (compilation) problems. I use regularly qgis on a variety of win machines for courses, and I do not encounter major problems. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user