[geos-devel] [postgis-devel] GEOS 3.4.0 is out

Sandro Santilli strk at keybit.net
Sun Aug 11 08:35:28 PDT 2013


On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 11:22:03AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> writes:
> 
> >> The other was a surprisingly large change in the set of installed files,
> >> relative to what I expected from reading NEWS.  Most of this diff should
> >> make sense to people that don't know pkgsrc details; the last line
> >> indicates that the new version installs an empty /usr/pkg/lib/geos
> >> directory.
> >
> > Delaunay triangulation and interruptability are mentioned in the NEWS file,
> > everything is expected,
> 
> Thanks.  I didn't mean to complain about NEWS as much as run the diff by
> someone who has been paying attention.  Indeed, I did see triangulation
> files and Interrupt.h, and I didn't blink at those.  It was more a
> number of with withdrawn files.  In particular the removal of
> geos/platform.h jumped out at me as something I didn't expect.

Uhm, I wouldn't expect removal of platform.h either, as that file is
included by many other include files ! Worth a ticket.

> I just noticed there is a new 3.4.0 tarball with a different hash.  It
> seems 3 people spoke up about that issue, including the person who deals
> with openSUSE packages, and opinion was unanimous about not having two
> different distfiles with the same name.

Eh, sorry about that. I guess the only option now is consider 3.4.0 a broken
one and try to ship a sane 3.4.1 this Friday...

--strk;


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