<br>On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:32:50 AM UTC-7, Denis Rouzaud wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">
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You are right, but there notices in
<a href="http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/postgis_installation.html#id2744974" target="_blank">http://postgis.refractions.<wbr>net/documentation/manual-svn/<wbr>postgis_installation.html#<wbr>id2744974</a><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none">GEOS geometry library, version 3.2.2 or greater,
but GEOS 3.3.2+ is recommended. Without GEOS 3.3, you will be
missing some major enhancements with handling of topological
exceptions and improvements to geometry validation and making
geometries valid such as ST_ValidDetail and ST_MakeValid. GEOS
3.3.2+ is also required for topology support. GEOS is available
for download from</span><a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,138,205);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/<wbr>geos/<span> </span></a><span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none">and 3.3+ is
backward-compatible with older versions so fairly safe to upgrade.</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none">GDAL, version 1.6 or higher (1.9 or higher is
preferable since some things will not work well with lower
versions). This is needed for raster support and will be required
in final release of PostGIS 2.0.<span> </span></span><a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,138,205);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/<wbr>gdal/wiki/DownloadSource</a><span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none">.</span><br>
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I am no expert, but I am not sure it's good idea to deliver builds
of postgis in a sub-optimal config. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, a sub-optimal build gets more work done than no build any day of the week. Plus, all of this work has to be done eventually---easier to improve something than start from scratch.</div><div><br></div><div>It does look like a GDAL upgrade to 1.9 would be a good idea though if the final version will require it. I have plenty of experience building this stuff from maintaining most of the GIS stack for the Homebrew package manager on OS X. Entirely new to Debian packaging though, so that will slow me down quite a bit.</div><div><br></div><div>-Charlie</div><br>On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:32:50 AM UTC-7, Denis Rouzaud wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">
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You are right, but there notices in
<a href="http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/postgis_installation.html#id2744974" target="_blank">http://postgis.refractions.<wbr>net/documentation/manual-svn/<wbr>postgis_installation.html#<wbr>id2744974</a><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none">GEOS geometry library, version 3.2.2 or greater,
but GEOS 3.3.2+ is recommended. Without GEOS 3.3, you will be
missing some major enhancements with handling of topological
exceptions and improvements to geometry validation and making
geometries valid such as ST_ValidDetail and ST_MakeValid. GEOS
3.3.2+ is also required for topology support. GEOS is available
for download from</span><a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,138,205);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/<wbr>geos/<span> </span></a><span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none">and 3.3+ is
backward-compatible with older versions so fairly safe to upgrade.</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none">GDAL, version 1.6 or higher (1.9 or higher is
preferable since some things will not work well with lower
versions). This is needed for raster support and will be required
in final release of PostGIS 2.0.<span> </span></span><a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,138,205);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/<wbr>gdal/wiki/DownloadSource</a><span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important;float:none">.</span><br>
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I am no expert, but I am not sure it's good idea to deliver builds
of postgis in a sub-optimal config.<br>
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On 03/14/2012 04:29 PM, Charlie Sharpsteen wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:21:48 AM UTC-7, Denis
Rouzaud wrote:
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But, there is no ppa for geos 3.3 either and I am not sure
about gdal 1.9...<br>
It might be a little early to have a ppa repo and dependencies
with unavailable packages....<br>
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My 2 cents.<br>
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<div>Pretty sure I built PostGIS from source against GDAL 1.7 and
GEOS 3.2.2 from the Oneiric standard repository.</div>
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<div>Are there any critical functions that are inactive without
the latest and greatest versions of these libraries?</div>
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<div>-Charlie </div>
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