[postgis-devel] WKT Raster: Why having to compile PostgreSQL & PostGIS first?

Paul Ramsey pramsey at opengeo.org
Sat Feb 28 08:22:53 PST 2009


Wrassling pre-compiled into working position for use to compile other
stuff against will inevitably give rise to incompatibility and "WFS
why doesn't this work!?!?" issues that make the 20 minute investment
in compiling PgSQL and PostGIS one time look paltry. For example, see
all the fun projects like GeoTools have keeping straight the various
binary jars they depend on.  Binary distribution is for when you are
done development, it doesn't support the dynamic environment that
exists in development itself very well.

P.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Pierre Racine
<Pierre.Racine at sbf.ulaval.ca> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here we go...
>
> As a newcomer I really don't like the idea of having to compile
> PostgreSQL & PostGIS before starting working on WKT Raster (I start it
> today!). I already have a production PostgreSQL/PostGIS installed on my
> machine and I need it. I don't necessarily want to have to work with my
> own (maybe unstable) development version of PostgreSQL/PostGIS. I would
> prefer having only to install PostgreSQL & PostGIS and compile WKT
> Raster over them. This would reduce the number of dependencies, make
> starting developement much faster and would not unstabilize my
> installation. Bonus: We would be sure that WKT Raster works fine on the
> released version of PostgreSQL & PostGIS.
>
> So what would you think about archiving the necessary (good win32 &
> linux versions) prebuilt PostgreSQL & PostGIS libraries in the WKT
> Raster source tree instead of compiling all the world? What are the pros
> and cons?
>
> I used to do this in another project with a lot of dependencies and it
> worked great.
>
> I'm working on Windows by the way.
>
> Pierre
>
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