[postgis-devel] sql.in.c do we like not like?

[Paragon Corporation]

Found the discussion:

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2008-July/003328.html


Funny how I was on strk's side before and now I've flipped 180.

 

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[mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
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Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] sql.in.c do we like not like?

Mark c-a originally changed them to .c for good reasons that I cannot recall
but will trace in email of necessary. They should so remain, particularly
since a regression failure has already happened.

P.

On 2013-03-20, at 5:49 PM, "Paragon Corporation" <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

> Recently strk made a change in trunk at  r11175, that screwed up on 
> mingw-64 (haven't check my 32-bit) the ability to distiguish between 
> different versions of PostgreSQL.
> 
> Noted here: http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/2239
> 
> 
> This for 2.1 will affect my ability to build for PostgreSQL 9.0, but 
> could potentially (if we ever get that spgist stuff in there), my 
> ability to build for anything but PostgreSQL 9.3. Which would give me 
> an excuse to goof off and just point fingers at strk :)
> 
> However that aside, from a philosophical standpoint, I LIKE HAVING 
> .sql files that require C preprocessing to be suffixed with C.  I feel 
> like we've had this discussion like 5 years ago whether we should keep 
> the .c or take it out and decided to keep.
> 
> Note that we have other files that don't requires C processing like 
> all the extension added .sql.in files and so forth and other intermediary.
> 
> What's everyones feeling about this change?
> 
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