[postgis-devel] Call for 1.5.2 release

[Mark Leslie]

Paul was kind enough to give me a shake, so I've pulled the changes
out of 1.5 and finally applied them to trunk.

On 11 August 2010 19:27, Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> +1 -- though I would prefer a security patch  to make my windows 7 look like
> XP :)
>
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> [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Mark
> Cave-Ayland
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 5:12 AM
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> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Call for 1.5.2 release
>
> Paragon Corporation wrote:
>
>> Yes we should stick with the old one.  The new one I agree is such a
>> major change that it really needs more testing.
>>
>> I haven't compiled PostGIS 1.5 in while (and haven't yet so don't know
>> if I will run into issues).  I assume not since Mark made a build for
> Windows.
>>
>> I didn't notice that Mark L had moved his changes from spike to 1.5.
>>
>> But -- why arent' these changes in PostGIS 2.0.  The 2.0 version looks
>> like the old 1.5 unlesss I am mistaken, and I don't see any migrate there.
>> Shouldn't that one have the new changes?
>
> Maybe Mark accidentally merged into the wrong branch? Although I think Mark
> has done a great job here, I would like to propose that we revert from 1.5
> branch and apply to trunk instead.
>
> The aim of point releases is that they should contain bugfixes and not new
> features; we should be able to push out a new bugfix release without having
> to jump through the same testing hoops we do for a full release.
>
> As Paul also points out, managing training materials is going to be a
> nightmare with some 1.5 releases on older versions and some on new versions
> - it would be like a Microsoft security update changing the interface on XP
> to look like Windows 7. As a project, I feel we need to be much more
> disciplined about this.
>
> +1 for reverting from 1.5 branch and re-applying to trunk.
>
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.
>
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