[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #311: Rename postgis.sqltopostgis-1.5.sql

[Paragon Corporation]

Paul,
I vote #1 and punt the final decision to PostGIS 2.0 because I don't think
#3 is feasible at this time given Mark's effort already.

Besides the main benefit would have been to be able to distinquish 1.4 from
1.5 and given 1.4 packaging is already set in stone, I think it will just
cause more confusion if we say use postgis.sql in contrib if 1.4 and
postgis_1.5/contrib...or postgis-1.5.sql If 1.5.

Most people are going to be just running one version anyway and its really
only the expert users that will be running multiple for testing reasons.
Those people are capable of working around this themselves in the way they
see fit. In most cases they are just deciding on whether to upgrade a
postgis 1.4 database to a postgis 1.5 by setting up a postgis 1.5 db with no
intention of ever going back to 1.4 if 1.5 works fine.

Well those are the use cases I see anyway.

I'd rather go thru this exercise once rather than twice.  You know it will
change in PostGIS 2.0 anyway so why change twice?

Thanks,
Regina

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Ramsey
Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 12:05 PM
To: PostGIS Development Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #311: Rename
postgis.sqltopostgis-1.5.sql

So what's your vote? Honestly, I need every PSC member to express a
preference, so we don't just stare at this issue for 2 weeks and
*then* get around to voting. It's stupid, it's trivial, but I can't cowboy
it, and it needs to be resolved before release.

I'll vote for #3 then.

P.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Mark can correct me, but I do believe the
>
> " Mark has a rage-induced aneurism and dies tragically."
>
> Goes with plan 2 :)
>
> or I at least will have a rage induced aneurism with plan 2.
>
> There are already thousands of files in share/contrib so I don't even 
> run my sql files from that folder when I am installing PostGIS on 
> Linux (I use the source folder).
>
> In other cases it really doesn't matter since other contribs usually 
> have just one sql file and one uninstall (maybe).
>
> Now FWIW, I can grudgingly live with the versioned file names.  Just 
> can't live with everything in the same folder.
>
> Especially when we are talking about (n) postgis.sql,  (n*4) 
> postgis_upgrade..., (n) postgis_uninstall
>
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------
> Well, that leaves us with several options, all of which gores someone's
ox:
>
> 1. Leave the install exactly the way it is now, and Regina continues 
> to make a "special" one for Windows. Unix and Windows don't match, 
> directory-wise, but they do match filename-wise. Unix has less version 
> info in the .sql files than Windows.
>
> 2. Change the install to have a versioned postgis-1.5.sql file 
> installed directly into share/contrib along with all the other .sql 
> files. Unix and Windows don't match directory-wise or file-wise, but 
> Unix users get a versioned .sql file to match their .so files.
>
> 3. Hack the Makefile to override the pgxs install and installdirs 
> targets to replicate Regina's Windows scheme. Unix and Windows match 
> both directory-wise and file-wise, and Unix gets some version 
> information to go with their .sql files. Mark has a rage-induced 
> aneurism and dies tragically.
>
> Anyone care to start choosing so we can have a release?
>
> P.
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:50 PM, PostGIS <trac at osgeo.org> wrote:
>> Comment (by robe):
>>
>>  contrib/postgis (this is folder shared by all that contains proj)
>>  contrib/postgis-1.4
>>  contrib/postgis-1.5
>>
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