[postgis-devel] Small boo boo

[Paragon Corporation]

Actually.  Slight correction it registers it -- but it says need to upgrade
scripts?  Perhaps our scripts should just be stampled with 1.4 now and we
should promise to never change scripts (even the internal functioning that
doesn't change API) 

Though since we have already released 1.4.0, I guess we can't change that
right now.

Dave -- would you mind if we just release this as 1.4.0 without us changing
the registry (since we have this dangling issue of the scripts reading
1.4.0) and then 1.4.1 we'll get it right for sure.

Thanks,
Regina

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Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:47 PM
To: 'Mark Cave-Ayland'; 'Dave Page'
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Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Small boo boo

The only minor caveat to this is that they would still need to run a small
upgrade to stamp the new postgis version.  Of course it would work just
replacing the dll, it would just register 1.4.0

Mark, Paul, and Kevin,

Is there a way we can do like what GEOS does.  Read the version from the
dll.  When I replace the GEOS and Proj dll it registers the new versions
right away where as I don't think PostGIS does. 

Thanks,
Regina

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Cave-Ayland [mailto:mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:23 AM
To: Dave Page
Cc: Paragon Corporation
Subject: Re: Small boo boo

Dave Page wrote:

> OK, thanks. Checking now...
> 
> Question: With 1.4.0, do we finally have a commitment from the PostGIS 
> folks to retain data compatibility between point releases? eg. so a 
> user can just run the installer to upgrade from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 and so 
> on (the same as a Postgres upgrade)?
> 
> /D

Yes indeed. As of 1.4, we've now agreed that no SQL API changes will occur
in point release :)

http://postgis.refractions.net/news/20090724/

So yeah, as soon as 1.4.1 comes out, people can just upgrade straight away
and get the benefit of any bug fixes.


ATB,

Mark.

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