[postgis-devel] Updated SVN documentation

[Obe, Regina]

> That's strange, as normally SVN snapshots are well hidden away from
> general use?! If you find that packages for your OS aren't available, it's
> normally made very clear on the project home page which is the latest
> stable version (as opposed to development) and I think it would take quite
> some effort to download the wrong thing... ;)
That would assume people actually go to their OS site or even know what it is
and are not working off of cached repositories or the OS even carries Geos and Proj
and also that they have fairly perfect knowledge about the changes going on in GEOS and Proj.
Right now I think its fantasy thinking  :)

If we sent them straight to OSGEO download site - look at this would you with beginner
goggles on have a clue which one to pick
http://download.osgeo.org/geos/


> Looking over at it again today, I think the changes I would like to see
> would be:

> - Remove section 2.2.1 part 2 as this is reasonably redundant with autoconf
> (I find this confusing as it states that we need to check the versions of
> tools listed, but then doesn't state which versions are needed?)

> - Move the sections 2.2.1 parts 3/4 about compiling PROJ/GEOS out of the
> main instruction flow and put it in a separate section below


> Do you think that this would be a reasonable compromise?

Works for me.





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