[pgpointcloud] pointcloud version and variant

[Regina Obe]

Sorry reading my email out of order.  I'm the packager of the windows pgpoint cloud builds.
Let me try to build with head again this week before you bother doing a release and then I'll report any issues so we can resolve before release time.

Normally I try to avoid packaging dev packages, but unfortunately the last released pgproint cloud version stopped working at PostgreSQL 9.5 so when 9.6 came around I had to switch to build against head.  So yes a new release is definitely in order.

Thanks,
Regina

-----Original Message-----
From: pgpointcloud [mailto:pgpointcloud-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Éric Lemoine
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 8:05 AM
To: Lars <laasunde at hotmail.com>; Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
Cc: pgpointcloud at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [pgpointcloud] pointcloud version and variant



On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 11:09 +0000, Lars wrote:
> Wow that was a quick response, thank you.
> 
> Must admit I do not know much about the difference between pointcloud 
> and pointcloud_postgis. I just installed the bundle mentioned in the 
> original post. Should pointcloud and pointcloud_postgis always have 
> the same version or is there some kind of compatibility issue?

Actually pointcloud and pointcloud_postgis are separate extensions, and their versionning is also separate. I would agree that this is very confusing and it that it should be changed.

Anyway your problem is not related to this version mismatch. Most probably you're using Pointcloud code that just doesn't have the PC_EnvelopeGeometry function. Where did you get bundle95x64_2.3.0.1 from? Is this the most recent bundle you can get?

PC_EnvelopeGeometry is mentioned in the Pointcloud README file on GitHub because that README file corresponds to the latest code in the master branch. It's just the way it is right now. Pointcloud doesn't provide a versionned documentation.

I think we really need to create a new official release of Pointcloud, and see if the people taking care of Windows builds/bundles can package it again.

Cheers,

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 ric Lemoine
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