[geos-devel] GIT repo url updated

[Howard Butler]

> On Dec 19, 2017, at 2:55 AM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> 
> strk,
> 
> I'm so proud of you.  You kept your cool and answered well.  I can't say I would have handled Hobu's negativity as well.
> Looking forward to using gitea more.  Thanks for all the hard work.

My negativity stems from arbitrary changes to infrastructure for little benefit and complete consternation for developers trying to use and depend upon GEOS. I'm also rage transferring anger about USE_UNSTABLE_GEOS_CPP_API to this topic, which feels just as arbitrary.

> Experimentation is very important to explore new avenues of working.  
> We must not all follow the beat of the same drum for there lies the death of creation.

Is that true for GEOS' code too, or just its infrastructure? GEOS doesn't really deviate at all from JTS for its API, and its C++ API was just marked as leprotic for reasons I still don't fully comprehend. Contributions that would change the API in ways that are incompatible or inconvenient with PostGIS are unwelcome.

Is GEOS a generic C++ geometry algebra library or is GEOS a support library for PostGIS that's coincidentally sometimes useful to outside software? I think the friction comes from the intractable tension between these two things, and it's maybe it is just time for me and my ilk who want the former to move on.

Howard