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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'>You made good points here so I wanna change my vote to<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'>+1 for 9.5<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'>+0.5 for GEOS 3.8<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'>+1 for GDAL 2.1 and Proj 4.9 – these actually make a lot of sense – but as you said was too late in release cycle.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>(but Darafei – you got to reput this one back out for vote) – can’t just piggy back on Raul’s passing comment </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><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'><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><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, November 11, 2019 10:16 AM<br><b>To:</b> PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel@lists.osgeo.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Raúl Marín Rodríguez <rmrodriguez@carto.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [postgis-devel] Postgis 3.1 minimum requirements update<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><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><br>> Minimum PG version: 9.6 (was 9.5)<br>....<br>What's the gain of changing this, to offset the pain caused by people<br>using 9.5?<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>PostGIS 3.1 is going to be released around the time 9.5 will become End of Life.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></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>> Recommended GEOS version: 3.8 (was 3.7)<br><br>'Recommended" in a vacuum is odd, because the standard approach is to<br>run the most recent release from a given project, eccept that after big<br>changes it is sensible to hold off 3-6 months. And, releases that<br>withdraw APIs have a much longer time before they can be considered<br>generally recommended (e.g. proj).<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Setting GEOS 3.8 as minimum (instead of "recommended") will let us lose a large amount of code that was shifted into it from liblwgeom, including but not limited to MakeValid, and guarantee that all the users get all the functionality including the Frechet distance.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It will also let us ship Coverage Union as a function without the "alas your distro maintainer built postgis without it" curse. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We will still have some variablility because of upcoming GEOS 3.9/4.0, but keeping it at manageable level is generally a good idea.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Previously I proposed to also bump GDAL to 2.1 and PROJ to 4.9 for PostGIS 3.0. This did not come through as it was rather late in previous cycle, but getting it (or a year in the future stricter) would be good. This also lets us remove some quirks.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://github.com/Komzpa/postgis/tree/ticket-4455">https://github.com/Komzpa/postgis/tree/ticket-4455</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Darafei Praliaskouski<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Support me: <a href="http://patreon.com/komzpa" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/komzpa</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>