[postgis-devel] address standardizer: core or extra?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Hi Greg,

I think this should get fixed by adding the dependency. While is has not 
be discussed on the list, the address standardizer will be an essential 
part of the geocoder rewrite that Regina and I will be tackling in 2016, 
to make the geocoder work with more data sets then just Tiger data. For 
example, I have written a geocoder using the address standardizer the 
works with both Tiger data and Navteq data and could work with other 
data sets also. The design and ideas I have implemented will be deployed 
in the rewrite.

Ans I agree, things should not magically come or go based on the build 
environment, they should be explicitly configured and consistent from 
version to version.

My 2c anyway,
   -Steve

On 12/14/2015 8:05 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> I just updated pkgsrc to 2.2.0.  While doing that, I noticed that the
> address standardizer got built, when it hadn't before (even with my
> draft 2.2.0 package).  I think this is because pcre became installed,
> even though it wasn't in the dependency list.  So I forced it off to be
> able to deal with the issue separately.
>
> I have three thoughts about this:
>
>    As a packager, I don't like things being automatically included or not
>    based on dependencies.  They should be on or off, per --disable-foo,
>    with some default, and if on fail noisily without the dependency.  The
>    reason is to have repeatable builds that aren't influenced by the
>    undocumented parts of the build environment.  I realize this is
>    perhaps more difficult for users, although I'm not sure they are well
>    served by optional components coming and going without noticing.
>
>    I don't know whether to leave this forced off, or to add the required
>    dependencies and insist that it be built.  I don't really want to make
>    a split package to hold this.  So I wonder if this is something that
>    people consider part of postgis (i.e., is postgis without it broken?),
>    or is it something that a few people want but is not really core.
>
>    Does this belong in postgis, or should it be seperate?  Or maybe
>    separate but in the tarball (so that you build it from a subdir,
>    assuming postgis is already installed).
>
>
> Given that I've seen very little discussion on the list, I tend to think
> it's not core.
>
>
>
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