Any advice on how to become a tester such as testing on prefered OS and setup?
I have access to a proxmox server but I usually stick to LINUX OSes. Or is at easy as following the notes here: https://gdal.org/development/dev_environment.html Ubuntu 22.x is the goto right now. Any advice would be appreciated. Rob On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 5:12 AM Even Rouault via gdal-dev < gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I've prepared a beta1 of GDAL 3.9.0 to get feedback from early testers. > > The NEWS file is here: > > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.9.0beta1/NEWS.md > > For packagers, > https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc96_deferred_plugin_loading.html may > make it more attractive to build some drivers that typically have heavy > dependencies as plugins, installable in separate packages, due to the > load time penalty having being improved. It is let to the appreciation > of packagers to decide which drivers are worth building as plugins > installable in a separate package. > You may also pass CMake options > ([GDAL/OGR]_DRIVER_<driver_name>_PLUGIN_INSTALLATION_MESSAGE=xxx) so > user get a hint of which package they need to install when GDAL detects > that a file may be opened by a plugin which is not available on the file > system but known to have been built as a plugin. Cf > > https://gdal.org/development/building_from_source.html#deferred-loaded-plugins > for more details. > > For end-users, the following utilities have been updated to use a new > argument parsing framework: gdaladdo, gdalinfo, gdal_translate, > gdalwarp, gdal_grid, gdal_viewshed, gdalbuildvrt, nearblack, ogrinfo, > ogr2ogr, sozip. > This helps detecting errors such as specifying twice an argument that > should be specified once (where generally the last instance was the one > used). While we have tried to retain backwards compatibility for nominal > use cases, obviously if you have scripts that accidentally specify an > argument several times whereas it should be specified at most once, they > will have to be corrected. > > Docker images with 3.9.0beta1 are currently cooking. > > master is now marked as 3.10.0dev, and the release/3.9 branch has been > created. All bugfixes for 3.9 should be backported into it. > > Source snapshots at: > > - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0beta1.tar.gz > - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0beta1.tar.xz > - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal380beta1.zip > > Autotest snapshots: > > - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdalautotest-3.9.0beta1.tar.gz > - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdalautotest-3.9.0beta1.zip > > Even > > -- > http://www.spatialys.com > My software is free, but my time generally not. > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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