Cool, I think I'll take a whack at some of them. For some reason the idea of closing the oldest ticket in the system appeals to my tidy nature ;-).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Paul Ramsey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pramsey@opengeo.org">pramsey@opengeo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I think a lot of these are actionable now, either in 1.5 or 2.0. And<br>
as Mark says, there is also a big feature possibility out there in a<br>
GUI dumper.<br>
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland<br>
<<a href="mailto:mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk">mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 08/03/11 18:07, Jeff Adams wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Let me be a little more specific. I was browsing the trac tickets and<br>
>> noticed there are several old (1-2 years) ones around shp2pgsql. Like<br>
>> these:<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/67" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/67</a><br>
>> <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/110" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/110</a><br>
>> <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/123" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/123</a><br>
>> <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/229" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/229</a><br>
>> <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/357" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/357</a><br>
>> <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/358" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/358</a><br>
>> <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/393" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/393</a><br>
>> <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/398" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/398</a><br>
>><br>
>> Does shp2pgsql just not get a lot of love? Or is there a high level<br>
>> plan or architectural reason not to do these tickets? It seems like the<br>
>> kind of thing I could sit down with and knock out a few patches next week.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>> Jeff<br>
><br>
> Hi Jeff,<br>
><br>
> The main reason for a lot of these tickets not getting any attention were<br>
> that the original versions of shp2pgsql and pgsql2shp suffered from poor<br>
> code quality, with lots of subtle differences between its internal parsers<br>
> and the standard PostGIS ones. Hence it made more sense to rewrite the<br>
> majority of the code before adding in extra features like these.<br>
><br>
> As of 1.5/trunk, these beloved utilities got the care and attention they<br>
> needed with a major rewrite from the ground up and so it is probably worth<br>
> reviewing some of these tickets again during the sprint. There is also some<br>
> low-hanging fruit with regard to exposing some of the extra features via the<br>
> GUI, improving various parts of the trunk GUI code and even creating a<br>
> combined GUI incorporating pgsql2shp functionality too.<br>
><br>
><br>
> HTH,<br>
><br>
> Mark.<br>
><br>
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