[postgis-devel] Common Code

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 03:41:22PM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 02:39:54PM -0700, Chris Hodgson wrote:
> >
> >> We really should fix the caching so that they don't overwrite each
> >> other, that bug has been around a long time ... however apparently
> >> we don't exercise that code path much because there aren't too many
> >> complaints about it. All the more reason for making them more easily
> >> testable as per Mark's suggestion.
> >>
> >> Hopefully strk's lwgeom work aligns well with Mark's plan?
> >
> > My current plan is just taking liblwgeom out there, with at least
> > all GEOS (base + extra) functions in it. Attach to it an easily
> > expiring version (SONAME = liblwgeom-2.0 or similar) and see what
> > happens.
> >
> > I don't have enough fundings to add more, and would actually like
> > to take most interfaces out, for the sake of stability.
> 
> Could be quite a bit of work, I have been personally amazed how much
> stuff I might consider "core" liblwgeom is called from postgis. Much
> has been isolated, but much still remains.

Yeah, I'm realizing that.
Will likely be an iterative process where we go out with full interfaces
for a start and streamline in time.

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