[postgis-devel] A letter to the Postgis Developers and Packagers

[Paragon Corporation]

As much as I hate agreeing with Paul on this as what he has reiterated over and over sounds selfish and unfriendly,  I think that's the best solution in the long run for everybody, that other projects fork liblwgeom into a separate repo they can share and PostGIS re-internalize our version of the library so it doesn't get installed in system.

 

Not being able to rely on an exact version of liblwgeom is very troubling for PostGIS.  Unlike GEOS where we can live with some people running say 3.4 or 3.3  (when we prefer 3.5), we absolutely have to be insured that what we test in our cunits is what's being shipped with said version of PostGIS as that is 80% of what PostGIS is. Not to mention the hassle of having to contribute to two projects just to make a change to something that probably 80% of the time affects only us.

Not having that reassurance is just too much stress, I feel  on the PostGIS project.  

 

As more projects use liblwgeom this butting of heads of our needs versus theirs will become more of an issue that I fear significantly dwarfs any contributions we might get from others.  In this case we are just better off copy sharing rather than binary sharing.

 

Thanks,

Regina

 

From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 10:10 AM
To: Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net>; PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>; Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com>
Cc: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] A letter to the Postgis Developers and Packagers

 

I think a great deal depends on how this new library is going to be used. 

If the expectation is that it will supplant use of the postgis/liblwgeom for spatialite, qgis, etc, then we should just re-internalize ours so we’re not installing a system library anymore.

P. 

On October 23, 2015 at 6:59:30 AM, Greg Troxel (gdt at ir.bbn.com <mailto:gdt at ir.bbn.com> ) wrote:

If liblwgeom is going to be used by other packages -- and it really 
seems it is -- the only reasonable thing to do in the long term is make 
it a separate package. (I realize that this may not be reasonable in 
the short term.) 

 

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