Hi Bernd, On Tue, 06. Nov 2012 at 01:09:38 +0100, Bernd Vogelgesang wrote: > ermm .. do not wanna sound ungrateful ... but do you think it's "fair" > letting people run into such traps?
I didn't put the updates of GRASS and GDAL out - and I neither use GRASS, ECW or MrSid. So I for one didn't notice right from the start. > i do not pay for qgis (ok, i do donate as often as i can), but i really > wasted hours and days tracking these issues and destroyed some projects > and there was not the slightest warning (i read the list every hour > though i still think mailing lists are stone age) about something > possible like this. Are the bug trackers stoneage to you, too? You could have found a clue there. Or even filed a ticket, if you happen to hit that problem first. We first need to know that there is a problem, before we can do something about it. > Maybe i got too adventurous by updating frequently, but since 1.8 > everything went so smooth. You're welcome. ;) > "release early, release often" ... who said this ? but maybe do not > release too early and too often. Release early, release often for us. Test and report for you. > i have no idea about this hole osgeo4w-ecosystem and who puts what and > when into it and its inner logic, so i don't know who to blame. In OSGeo4W GDAL is maintained by Frank Warmerdam (but not all the plugins), GRASS by Martin Landa and QGIS by me. 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 committ(ed|ing) to Quantum GIS 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