[geos-devel] branch vs trunk

[Jeff McKenna]

Ok, thanks.  I'll watch for around September.

I can imagine today's GDAL 2.0 release will cause more people than me 
banging on the door though :)

-jeff



On 2015-06-18 8:03 PM, Paragon Corporation wrote:
> Yes we are shooting to get GEOS 3.5.0 out the door before PostGIS 2.2. So
> probably before September.  A few important  PostGIS 2.2 functions rely on
> GEOS 3.5 functionality.
>
> Strk,
>
> Any comments?
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geos-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:geos-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Greg Troxel
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 5:39 PM
> To: Jeff McKenna
> Cc: geos-devel at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [geos-devel] branch vs trunk
>
>
> Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> writes:
>
>> On second thought, I decided to go with the stable branch (/3.4).
>>
>> Sorry for the noise.
>
> It was actually a really good question.   My opinion (I maintain the
> pkgsrc entry) is that you should only package releases, which sounds like
> your standard practice too.  But 3.5-to-be is starting to get used as an
> almost-dependency by postgis, and I expect pressure from that to
> lead to a 3.5 release within the next half year.   (I'm not involved;
> that's just a guess as a packager/lurker.)
>