Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS Dokumentation

"Güttel, Christoph via QGIS-Developer" writes: > https://docs.qgis.org/3.40/de/docs/user_manual > The firewall says the IP behind it is on the list for the command and control > servers for malware > Unfortunately, I can't use the online help. The website is blocked by our IT > department for s

Re: [QGIS-Developer] qgisMinimumVersion for supportsQt6=True

"Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. via QGIS-Developer" writes: > I already started making my QGIS plugins qt6 compatible. It wasn't > complicated - thanks to the given migration and check tools. My code > is Qt5/Qt6 compatible now, but I am not sure what will be the > qgisMinimumVersion? Which QGIS of

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS Python Versions

Etienne Trimaille writes: > Python 3.10 minimal version was in PR : > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/56499 I had forgotten. I do remember that now. > I think it has been closed because the version on MacOS is kind of locked > for now. (not sure about the status now), if I remember correctly

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS Python Versions

Here's your answer. For 3.40, python could be as early as 3.9. Fro 3.34, it could be 3.7. Even for the master branch, it could be 3.9. $ for i in 34 36 38 40 42; do git checkout release-3_$i; echo 3_$i; egrep 'MIN_PYTHON_VERSION ' CMakeLists.txt ; done 3_34 set(MIN_PYTHON_VERSION "3.7") 3_36

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS Python Versions

Sergi Maspons - BGEO via QGIS-Developer writes: > I was wondering, is there a rule for which python version comes with > each QGIS version? No. qgis is in general built from source, and will support multiple versions, from some minimum to some max. Each binary package constructed from those so

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Collecting Anonymous Plugin Usage Data

Abdul Raheem Siddiqui via QGIS-Developer writes: > I would like to ask if there are any guidance or restrictions about > collecting anonymous plugin usage data i.e. 1) Time 2) Bounding Box & 3) > Algorithm Name at every use of a plugin. There will be a disclaimer in T&C > that tells users that th

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS Plugin site

Emma Hain via QGIS-Developer writes: > I like this idea of having it reviewed for a cost! I am not really comfortable with that. It creates a bias to company-produced software. The costs really should be paid by the people that are relying on the safety judgements, not the ones producing open-

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS 3.46 builds to use Qt6?

Even Rouault writes: >> Are you suggesting that the same sources have a different version number >> expressed in "qgis --version" and recommended for binary package naming, >> depending on how they are built? > > I'd suggest that at some point QGIS master stops supporting Qt5 > builds, and such a

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS 3.46 builds to use Qt6?

Even Rouault via QGIS-Developer writes: > I also believe verisonning Qt6 QGIS builds as 4.0 is the right thing > to do for clarity and from a semantic versioning point of view. This I am somewhat sympathetic, but am having trouble following. Right now, as I understand it, the qgis sources can b

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS 3.46 builds to use Qt6?

Matthias Kuhn via QGIS-Developer writes: > A fixed date for releasing QGIS with Qt6 sounds like a good idea. And I think it's important, as an open source project, to keep separate concepts a) releases of source code, which can be built in various ways b) binary builds with specific option

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS 3.46 builds to use Qt6?

Nyall Dawson writes: > On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 10:48, Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer < > qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > >> I wonder about "less stable" qt5 and "more stable" qt6. Do we really >> believe that qgis built on qt6, with no plug

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS 3.46 builds to use Qt6?

Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer writes: > That said, I share Vincent's concerns about the plugin situation. I'm > not super-comfortable with advertising Qt 6 builds as the "default" > for QGIS without some disclaimer about the plugin situation. Maybe at > this milestone we could rework the downlo

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Potential Security Issue with latest OSGeo4W release

Jürgen E. Fischer via QGIS-Developer writes: > Hi Greg, > > On Thu, 28. Nov 2024 at 08:31:38 -0500, Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer wrote: >> C Hamilton via QGIS-Developer writes: >> >> > I just installed the latest QGIS versions of the OSGeo4W installer. I >&

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Potential Security Issue with latest OSGeo4W release

C Hamilton via QGIS-Developer writes: > I just installed the latest QGIS versions of the OSGeo4W installer. I > received a warning saying, "We moved libgrass_parson.8.4.dll to your > Quarantine because it was infected with Win64:Evo-gen[Trj]" In general, I think people should file a support issu

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Requiring QGIS plugins that requires paid subscription and.or authentication to be tagged as such?

Even Rouault via QGIS-Developer writes: > I believe this has been discussed. Was there any conclusion on this? My read of rough consensus was that at least labeling is obligatory. > Just came across a Toot about a AI powered QGIS plugin (that I won't > name to avoid advertizing it). In its desc

Re: [QGIS-Developer] No qgis_3.34.12+16bullseye_amd64.deb in debian-ltr ?

Andrea Giudiceandrea via QGIS-Developer writes: > Il 05/11/2024 11:35, Patrice Bridoux via QGIS-Developer ha scritto: >> Any reason why there is no qgis_3.34.12+16bullseye_amd64.deb file in >> the debian-ltr repo ? >> qgis_3.34.12+16bullseye_i386.deb is there. > > I would also add that QGIS 3.40

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Plugin development and publishing

"opsoge.dcz--- via QGIS-Developer" writes: [snipping parts where I have no useful comments] > Is it possible to publish a plugin which includes a compiled shared > object? I noticed that mentions of C++ are absent from the plugins > page, but that would free me from Python and let me use somethi

Re: [QGIS-Developer] How to deal with QGIS plugins which install additional packages

Nyall Dawson writes: > I would personally feel safest if this was something officially endorsed, > with an explicit allow list of acceptable packages. This is my reaction, too, of having a curated list of packages that could be installed, with the list managed by qgis, perhaps in the regular sou

Re: [QGIS-Developer] How to deal with QGIS plugins which install additional packages

John Stevenson - BGS via QGIS-Developer writes: > Mergin Maps plugin also packages the dependencies (including the > geodiff binary) into the plugin itself. I’m not sure how it handles > cross-platform differences, though. Wow. We really should not have binaries in plugins at all. Beyond the

Re: [QGIS-Developer] How to deal with QGIS plugins which install additional packages

Thomas B via QGIS-Developer writes: > Dear QGIS-Developers, > > Are there any guidelines from the QGIS project regarding whether a QGIS > plugin is allowed to autonomously install required packages using PIP or > similar tools without manual installation by the user? > > While this might seem con

Re: [QGIS-Developer] How long does it take for you to compile/build QGIS?

Also, using ccache helps if you are rebuilding (e.g. because a dependency was updated). However, I notice that on upgrade from 3.34.x to 3.34.x+1 it seems there are no hits. I don't know if that's because every .c includes, eventually, a .h with the version, but it would be nice if there weren't

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Plugin constantly asking for donations

Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-Developer writes: > Hi Luke, (cc'ing PSC list) Not me; that has in the past led to non-member bounces. > But in my view a 'nagging'-screen to pay for development would be a > reason to remove a plugin from the repo. Agreed. I see norms as allowing it once per ins

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Overview of QGIS 3 and (Py)Qt versions

Sander Schaminee via QGIS-Developer writes: I am seeing the version I have installed as 5.15.11. Looking at: https://pypi.org/project/PyQt5/#history I see that 5.6 was released on April 28, 2016. > To elaborate, I am actually interested in one thing only: > I am looking for the QGIS vers

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Overview of QGIS 3 and (Py)Qt versions

Sander Schaminee via QGIS-Developer writes: > I am looking for an overview of all (stable) 3.x QGIS versions and > their (Py)Qt versions. Does that exist? I suspect your question is making assumptions that you aren't listing. First, I would say there are only two stable versions usually: the mo

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS Unexpectedly Crashing

"Catania, Luke A ERDC-RDE-GRL-VA CIV via QGIS-Developer" writes: > What causes an access violation intermittently? Once it happens > sometimes it continues to happen, and I have to delete the QGIS > directory in AppData\Roaming\ which is annoying because I have my > plugin there and I need to co

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS project maintainability, forms and styles, xml verbosity

John Stevenson - BGS via QGIS-Developer writes: > The code below uses `canonicalize` to fix the ordering issue, and now > we can see the actual changes between files in our GitLab repo. I have run into similar issues with another project that outputs to json. I think it's a bug for the same sem

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Government CAC PKI Support for web services

Régis Haubourg writes: > first time I hear about PCKS11 here, maybe just because it is mostly used > and required in the US. > Doing a quick search, it seems the Qt QCA lib supports this protocol, cf. > [0] I don't think it is about the US so much but about large organizations being serious abou

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Government CAC PKI Support for web services

"Catania, Luke A ERDC-RDE-GRL-VA CIV via QGIS-Developer" writes: > Is there support in QGIS for accessing web services (WFS, WMS, etc) requiring > a gov't CAC? Translating this to internet standards terminology from US Government, the question is Can one configure a WFS etc. in qgis, when th

Re: [QGIS-Developer] C Hamilton Plugin Continunity

Emma Hain via QGIS-Developer writes: > This is very interesting and a real part of OS software management in > regards to maintainance once the creator wishes to retire (and rightly > so!). On top of that, if the ownership sits with an organisation. For > clarification, does NGA or do you, Calvin

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Is it allowed to sell data in a QGIS plugin?

Info OpenGIS writes: > I agree that the descriptions must highlight that the plugin is used to > purchase geodata and I would be happy if there > was some sort of "in app purchases" label but let's not make the plugin > repository become a new playstore or applestore. > At least I would manage

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Is it allowed to sell data in a QGIS plugin?

Sandro Santilli via QGIS-Developer writes: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 09:56:15AM +0200, Alessandro Pasotti via > QGIS-Developer wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 9:44 AM Christopher Frank via QGIS-Developer < >> qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: >> >> > We would like to implement in the plu

Re: [QGIS-Developer] High load on plugins.qgis.org

[high plugin load] Three suggestions: is this a distributed problem, or a few abusive addresses? In openstreetmap I think they would just firewall the addresses in questio. please don't use google recapcha or anything else without stellar privacy policies consider rate-limiting I

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Post-mortem of application to Google Summer of Code

Emma Hain writes: > Hi Greg > Thanks for replying - that is a very interesting read - and somewhat > disheartening. So my response is, is this something we get involved with or > not? > My thoughts on getting involved in this was additional funding to build up > and mentor up and coming QGIS deve

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Post-mortem of application to Google Summer of Code

Emma Hain via QGIS-Developer writes: > Mentors to be put forward - I see this information > : > *Mentors are people from the community who volunteer to work with a GSoC > contributor. Mentors provide guidance such as pointers to useful > documentation,

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Build problems using install instructions

Tony Bazeley via QGIS-Developer writes: > Not having much luck I'm afraid > > I've done a completely new reinstall and followed the instructions down to > git fetch /qgis/master Can you point to the instructions? This all seems very strange. I would just expect to clone the repo and checkout t

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Maintainance of QGIS Plugin repository

Admire Nyakudya via QGIS-Developer writes: > Over the years there has been a steady increase in plugins that are > not approved . This is > due to a number of reasons: > * Duplication of functionality. Plugin functionality already exists in QGIS. > I

Re: [QGIS-Developer] PKI Certs with QGIS

Joshua Tomlin via QGIS-Developer writes: > Dear QGIS Support Team, This is not a support list. It's for discussion among developers. > I'm currently working on a script that will allow the CAC reader to > pull PKI Certs off the CAC card. I'm currently working with the CAC support > team an

Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-user] Announce - migrate our mailing lists to Discourse

What I meant mostly is two things: People like me tend not to be happy about things turning into forums and are likely to participate less. As an example, openstreetmap moved from mailinglists to forums and I have not, so I interract far far less and spend more time on other things. I

Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-user] Announce - migrate our mailing lists to Discourse

Régis Haubourg via QGIS-User writes: > With this move, we hope that we can counter the current fragmentation > and streamline our discussions. Please fell free to react. I'm unhappy about this, as I suspect are others who have been in the Free Software world a long time. I expect that this will

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS Full Stack Web Developer Report

"Johannes Kröger (WhereGroup) via QGIS-Developer" writes: > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/pull/356";>Use Gmail > as the email provider > > Does this mean that Gmail will be involved in all those mails? I > would be strongly against proactively exposing any data to such a >

Re: [QGIS-Developer] cmake PYQT_SIP_DIR (via Python_SITEARCH) value wrong on Debian and derivatives

Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-Developer writes: > On 2/9/24 14:24, Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer wrote: >> How will this affect builds on other systems? It seems there is >> something deeper wrong, and the real problem might be that there are >> multiple legitimate ways t

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS plugin depends on pypi package

John Lindsay via QGIS-Developer writes: > I believe that I've solved my earlier issue with my QGIS plugin, which > previously relied on a pip package. In order to avoid this dependency, > I decided to include the Whitebox Workflows wheel in with my > plugin. Unfortunately, however, this has incre

Re: [QGIS-Developer] cmake PYQT_SIP_DIR (via Python_SITEARCH) value wrong on Debian and derivatives

Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-Developer writes: > Hi Devs, > > I kept getting the https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/54184 issue: sip not > being able to find the Qt package sips: 'QtNetwork/QtNetworkmod.sip' could > not be found etc etc I have not tried to build anything beyond 3.34.3 so far

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Theoretical discussion: A QGIS paid plugin marketplace?

Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer writes: > I wanted to kick start a (hopefully!) civil, THEORETICAL discussion about > the role of a paid plugin marketplace for QGIS plugins. > > - Yes, I'm aware that plugins must be GPL, and that this makes paid plugins > a little trickier in that they're obvious

[QGIS-Developer] bare isnan -- why isn't CI catching this?

I am in the process of building 3.34.3 for pkgsrc. (We've been on 3.28.x, and I am just now getting to jumping to the new LTR.) I am using gcc 7.5.0 on NetBSD 10 amd64. I found a case of bare isnan in a source file. It's easy for me to patch to std::isnan. I see that there are a large number o

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS plugin depends on pypi package

John Lindsay writes: > I would be fine with asking users to manually install the dependency > after installing the plugin however, the problem is that QGIS seems to > use its own version of Python, rather than the system Python. I think it would be good to really understand this, and for it to b

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS plugin depends on pypi package

John Lindsay via QGIS-Developer writes: > Besides, a better solution would be for the plugin to install this > package via pip when it is itself first installed and launched. I > tried to accomplish this with the following code: > > https://github.com/jblindsay/whitebox_workflows_for_qgis/blob/4e

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Adding a "solution proposed" label?

Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer writes: > What do we think about adding a new label for GitHub tickets for "solution > proposed"? This could be used for tickets like > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/55871 where the issue is likely a user > error and a potential solution has been suggested. >

[QGIS-Developer] C++17 explicit --std required?

(I picked -developer rather than -user because this is in the weeds of build issues. Please feel free to tell me I chose wrongly if so.) I maintain the qgis entry in pkgsrc, which is currently at 3.28.13. (For now, we are packaging LTR.) As part of debugging problems related to sip 6.8.0 (see

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS repository management

As someone on the outside of the committer set (which is fine!) for qgis, but familiar with the larger issues (and a packager): I'm going to use the word committer. git has renamed things, but the point is of course placing state in the branch that matters in the repo that matters. There

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Next QGIS LTR and its compatibility with older versions

Nyall Dawson writes: >> My impression is also that 3.30, 3.32 are stable and entirely usable for >> users. > > Small clarification here: the 3.x.0 releases AREN'T considered stable, > you should wait for 3.x.1 before targeting the newer release. Thanks; I had figured that out over the years, but

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Next QGIS LTR and its compatibility with older versions

Andreas Neumann via QGIS-Developer writes: > 3.34 will be the next LTR, but not yet in October 2023, but only > starting from end of February 2024. In the table > https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/roadmap.html#release-schedule > you can check the third column labeled "Long-Term Rep

Re: [QGIS-Developer] strange files in bin when building qgis server

Greg Troxel writes: > The patch basically does: > > +CMAKE_ARGS+= -DWITH_SERVER:BOOL=TRUE > > which as you'd expect adds that to the cmake invocation. > > Things are mostly ok; now new files appear in $prefix/bin, in lib and in > share and reviewing the list most seem obviously sensibl

[QGIS-Developer] strange files in bin when building qgis server

I maintain the gpksrc entry for qgis, currently at 3.28.7. Generally it works pretty well. I am reviewing a patch to add qgis server to the package. While there are questions as to whether it should be a split package, I'm not worrying about that yet, and it doesn't seem like the server files ar

Re: [QGIS-Developer] How to find pxiels per meter resolution

Vedran Stojnović via QGIS-Developer writes: > WGS84 is not a projection, it's an ellipsoid - a mathematical model of the > Earth. To be pedantic (a virtue :-), WGS84 is a family of specifications,, which define not only the ellipsoid (same for all in the family, thankfully), but also the positio

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Some PROJ versions are not compatible with QGIS on Linux instances

C Hamilton via QGIS-Developer writes: > I don't know if this is something I should report or not. I keep getting > users submitting issues for the Lat Lon Tools plugin on Ubuntu or Fedora > because they are using a recent pyproj library and it is causing a crash. I > have them check to see if "im

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Adding a custom projection to QGIS

Jennifer Johnston via QGIS-Developer writes: > I've been working on a custom projection with Duncan Cameron and > I'm wanting to add it to QGIS. Is this something that I could do > myself? If so what specifications would I need and is there any > documentation that I could read to help? I have

[QGIS-Developer] missing info in INSTALL.md, partial trip report for 3.28 on NetBSD

For background, I have been maintaining the pkgsrc entry for qgis for a while, and have been staying on LTR, partly because it's easier, and partly because it sems a packaging system with only one entry should be LTR, with a secondary entry for the current non-LTR release (which is sometimes the s

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Long filename/filepath causing git issues

"Alexis R.L. via QGIS-Developer" writes: > I'm not sure it warranted a bug report but some control image now have > names that are frankly too long and are causing issues in git if the local > report folder is located some level down. > > Would it be too crazy to shrink down some offending name

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Revolt Chat Community Server

Also, revolt's terms contain: You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password, including but not limited to the restriction of access to your computer and/or account. You agree to accept responsibility for any and all activities or actions that occur u

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Revolt Chat Community Server

Régis Haubourg via QGIS-Developer writes: > thanks for the work with Revolt. I tried it during the developer > meeting in Firenze, but I did not persist in using it. Let me explain > why and please excuse me in advance, this is a pretty long mail! I found your message to be very thoughtful and

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Could the H3 library be included as a core QGIS library

C Hamilton via QGIS-Developer writes: > A few months ago I was introduced to the H3 (Hexagonal hierarchical > geospatial indexing system) library (https://h3geo.org/) and as a part of > testing it to see its capabilities I included it in my Density Analysis > plugin. The library is blazing fast

[QGIS-Developer] qt5 releases, packaging impact?

I'm writing as a packager of qgis (pkgsrc). A while ago there was discussion about QT making bug fix releases of 5.15 proprietary, more or less. I see that "Qt 5.15.10 LTS Commercial" was just released on June 7. And, qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.15.5.tar.xz available at https://downlo

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Use of NE(SW) in the showing of (ordered) coordinates within QGIS

Richard Duivenvoorde writes: > I think we should never copy the characters, only numbers ( well, > except when using W/S/E/N :-) ).. Having thought a bit more this seems very tricky. > I also understood from somebody that when using latlon coordinates the > minus sign is actually redundant, as

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Use of NE(SW) in the showing of (ordered) coordinates within QGIS

Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-Developer writes: > In 3.24 you will see something like "WGS84 5.2 52,3" > While in master it shows: "WGS84 52.3N 5.2E" (note the N and E) > > For WGS84 I think this is normal (to show WSEN), but for other crs's I > think it is overkill? > > In 3.24: "EPSG:28992 (1