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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I don't think we should follow that convention because postgis is an extension of postgresql and not a regular library.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>So postgis-3 for pg10 would be different from postgis-3 for postgresql 11<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Besides those rules aren't used under windows so we'd have to come up with a convention for windows if we went down that path.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>That said – we had discussed truly following the postgresql extension model of not having a version number at all – just calling it postgis.so/dll/dylib whatever, but I think that was considered too drastic of a change since it would mean a postgis-2.5 (or whatever) couldn't coexist in the same PostgreSQL version/service as postgis-3 and since we may be changing on disc format etc, this would be an unpleasant hindrance for not much benefit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Darafei "Kom?pa" Praliaskouski<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 20, 2018 5:21 AM<br><b>To:</b> PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel@lists.osgeo.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [postgis-devel] PostGIS 3.0 development begins<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Can we follow the soname thing?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soname" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soname</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It basically says lib should be named postgis.so.3.0.0 and the soname set to postgis.so.3, instead of postgis-3.so. And a set of symlinks that link to the highest version available.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This is basically how it is with every other library in the system:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>$ ll /usr/lib/libqscintilla2_qt4.so*<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 сту 3 2018 /usr/lib/libqscintilla2_qt4.so.13 -> libqscintilla2_qt4.so.13.1.0<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 сту 3 2018 /usr/lib/libqscintilla2_qt4.so.13.1 -> libqscintilla2_qt4.so.13.1.0<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4869264 сту 3 2018 /usr/lib/libqscintilla2_qt4.so.13.1.0<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>пн, 20 авг. 2018 г. в 1:41, Regina Obe <<a href="mailto:lr@pcorp.us" target="_blank">lr@pcorp.us</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>Hey PostGIS Devs,<br><br>I've flipped trunk to 3.0 and created a 2.5 branch. <br><br>Feel free to start posting new stuff to trunk, and make sure any fixes that<br>need to go to 2.5.0 are backported to the 2.5 branch.<br><br>Is everyone okay if I flip so our lib is just postgis-3 instead of<br>postgis-3.0<br><br>Or did we not settle that argument yet?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Regina<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>postgis-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:postgis-devel@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">postgis-devel@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-devel</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Darafei Praliaskouski<br>Support me: <a href="http://patreon.com/komzpa">http://patreon.com/komzpa</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>