[postgis-devel] TWKB in PostGIS, what do you think?

[Paragon Corporation]

Even if we go the extensions model with TWKB, would like to see it managed
in PostGIS proper just because I suspect it will need direct dependency with
liblwgeom (which is not a stable API) and which pointcloud doesn't really
have to contend with. So it would still be an extra annoying compile to
experiment with.
 
Nicklas correct me if I am wrong on this.
 
Then I think it would follow the path of SFCGAL.  Except there isn't much
reason to exclude it since it has no extra dependencies aside from it isn't
stable yet and not sure how well adopted it would become.
 
Regina

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[mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Nicklas Avén
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 2:56 AM
To: Paul Ramsey
Cc: PostGIS Development Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] TWKB in PostGIS, what do you think?


I think you are right Paul. That would make it possible to use also on
PostGIS 2.0 and 2.1 and also possible to release more frequent in the
beginning. I also realize that the interest from the client libraries is
smaller than I had hoped. So it would be stupid to put code in PostGIS that
won't be used. To get things fast I think some javascript guru need to look
at the client part and connect the parsing very close to the canvas drawing,
to avoid all text based javascript objects. /Nicklas 2013-06-13 Paul Ramsey
wrote: There's no great harm in including it, but it's more code to maintain
that is pretty prospective. Why not bundle up an extension against PostGIS?
I was pleased with how easy it was to do pointcloud_postgis as an extension
that depended on both. > >P > >-- >Paul Ramsey >http://cleverelephant.ca
>http://postgis.net > > >On Monday, June 10, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Nicklas Avén
wrote: > >> So, what i would like to ask is if PostGIS PSC and dev community
can >> decide that TWKB will be included when it is ready? > > > > > 
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