[postgis-devel] Moving towards a 1.2.2 release?

[Paul Ramsey]

We need a "template_postgis" routine in the distribution because we  
are going to start recommending that one be created by any packaged  
version of PostGIS. This will allow client software without access to  
the server to create "spatialized" database with a CREATE DATABASE  
sql command, instead of needing to know the location of the magic  
lwpostgis.so on the server side.

That said, the current thing in the distribution does seem a terrible  
mess and very debian-specific.

P

On 1-Jun-07, at 6:58 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:

> * Mark Cave-Ayland (mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk) wrote:
>> AFAICT the following issues remain before we can release 1.2.2:
>>
>> 1. template_gis - the whole thing needs to be revisited...
>
> Agreed, 100%.  I don't really see why anything for template_gis  
> needs to
> be or should be done during build but even beyond that it didn't  
> appear
> to be respecting $DESTDIR properly for some reason.  For those  
> reasons I
> removed it from the build for the Debian PostGIS 1.2.1 packages.  I'm
> also not at all convinced it should even be a part of the main PostGIS
> distribution...
>
> Also, the 'extras/debian' directory should be removed, it's horribly
> outdated, wrong and obsolete.
>
> 	Thanks!
>
> 		Stephen