[geos-devel] The Road to 3.10

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 12:36:38PM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
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> > On Sep 29, 2021, at 12:34 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 11:19:46AM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
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> >>> On Sep 29, 2021, at 10:19 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
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> >>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 09:15:46AM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> >>>> So the next step on the road to 3.10 is an interim release. I'd like to go
> >>>> right to beta1. If I don't hear any howls in the next 24-48 hours, I will
> >>>> cut that package so we can get our packager friends to take it for a spin.
> >>> 
> >>> I guess I'll try to sneak in a DistanceWithin and
> >>> PreparedDistanceWithin signature, to improve later,
> >>> do you mind ?
> >> 
> >> A little... I mean, we do want to roll this to release in time for PostGIS 3.2 to sit on top of it. What's your planned schedule?
> > 
> > I'm on it now, will be ready (it's just stubs) in a few hours.
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> The implication being we'll roll a big change into a micro release later on? This is also Less Than Ideal, even if the API remains constant, I would think.

I'll try making it less than a stub.
I just discovered we DO have a Geometry::isWithinDistance(),
which is basically also a stub, as it does NOT currently
use the DistanceOp support for early terminating the
computations. Might improve that as well.

Not sure how to possibly improve the PreparedWithinDistance
though, as maybe there's not much to improve there.

--strk;