[OSGeo-Discuss] Requesting services for librttopo

[Sandro Santilli]

Hi all,
this mail is to request permission to use the download area
of OSGeo for publishing librttopo packages, and possibly
an rttopo.osgeo.org domain and webspace.

The librttopo project consists of a GPL(v2+) licensed library
providing a standard-based topology API on top of user-provided
input/output routines for storage. It was derived from the PostGIS
liblwgeom library at its 2.2.0 version, from which deviated to
drop PostGIS-specific dependencies and add thread-safety (not
of interest for PostGIS proper at this time).

The upcoming 4.4.0 version of Spatialite will be using librttopo
instead of liblwgeom and the aim is to attract other liblwgeom users
(QGIS, for example) so to eventually free PostGIS from the burden of
maintaining a stable liblwgeom API. Having PostGIS itself use
librttopo is currently not on the radar, but might be considered in
the future if librttopo gets more development.

At the moment librttopo code is hosted in the experimental OSGeo
[Gogs service](https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/rttopo/librttopo) and
has an OSGeo hosted [mailing list]
(https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/librttopo-dev)

The project is managed by Andrea Peri of "Regione Toscana" (primary
sponsor for the library), Alessandro Furieri of Spatialite and
myself from PostGIS/GEOS.

Some more background info are available from [my website]
(https://strk.kbt.io/projects/rttopo)

--strk;