[Live-demo] Postgres Apps - MapFish Sahana RasdamanPGRoutingGPSDrive

[Alex Mandel]

You are correct. We made a decision a while back to reduce the
complexity of releases that whole numbers would upgrade to new ubuntu
bases and partial numbers would keep the previous.

So:
4.0,4.5 - Xubuntu 10.04
5.0,5.5 - Xubuntu 11.04
6.0,6.5 - Xubuntu 12.04

*.10 releases tend to also have more cutting edge/experimental stuff...

My understanding have talked to Brian, the plan is to use 8.4 on this
5.5 release, which you could consider a bug fix/maintanence release and
make the switch to pg 9, ubuntu 12.04 for osgeo live v6 in time for
FOSS4G 2012. So for those who haven't started working on pg 9
compatibility, please start working on it so it's ready in 5 months.

That sound ok to everyone else?

Thanks,
Alex

On 01/23/2012 05:19 PM, Daniel Kastl wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> Isn't the LiveDVD still based on 11.04?
> I thought it was decided that the Ubuntu version wouldn't be upgraded for
> this LiveDVD. Otherwise I must have missed the news.
> 
> According to this list the official PostgreSQL version of "Natty" is 8.4:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/database/
> 
> For 11.10 (Oneiric) there are indeed two version available: 8.4 and 9.1.
> And for that Ubuntu release I can publish pgRouting packages for 9.1 to
> Launchpad.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:05 AM, <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:
> 
>> Daniel-san:
>>
>> actually, the 9.1 package is already in place..
>> I simply changed the number 8.4 to 9.1 in the install script, and
>> everything just worked
>>
>> as far as pgRouting packages, yes, I see your point
>> someone would have to update pgRouting in that case
>>
>> postgres 8.4 is four to five years old at this point
>>
>> best regards
>>   -Brian
>>
>> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:58:26  0900, Daniel Kastl <daniel at georepublic.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>> pgRouting is probably not going to work with 9.1, because the pgRouting
>> packages on Launchpad are built for 8.4 for (X)ubuntu 11.04.It would be
>> quite some extra work to just build packages for 9.1 and 11.04, which I
>> would like to avoid, because these packages already exist for 11.10 (on my
>> PC) and there were some patches necessary. And I don't want to revert to a
>> script again to download, compile and install ;-)
>>
>> So I'm -1 to install some "non-official" PostgreSQL version on this
>> LiveDVD release. It will be just a matter of six months to have 9.1 anyway
>> if we will upgrade to 12.04. IMO, if 9.1 is so important we should have
>> used 11.10 for this release.
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:16 AM,  <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:
>>
>> Compatability for Postgres 9.1 is in the 90%   range
>> The problem people run into is that since Postgres is a fundemental piece
>> of any stack,
>> it is some work to rebuild the stack to test with a new version... I would
>> be surprised if there are any compatability problems at all for most all
>> apps
>> other than people hard-coding version numbers and the like
>>
>>   -Brian
>>
>> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:46:57  1100, Cameron Shorter <
>> cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Brian,
>>
>> Based upon Peter's request, my feeling is that we should revert back to
>> Postgres 8.4. Our emphasis on OSGeo-Live is "stability over cutting edge".
>> This is because we are targeting new users who will be very quickly turned
>> off if they find a bug, and will generally not be looking to check out the
>> latest and greatest. (They can always go to a project page later if they
>> want to find latest features). Anyone wish to weigh in on this topic before
>> we make a call on which posgres to use?
>>
>> On 22/01/12 20:55, Peter Baumann wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Brian,
>>>
>>> sorry, we have not tested rasdaman with PG 9.x yet. Given the short >
>>> time remaining and current project pressure we won't be able to do so > for
>>> this DVD roll-out. As in the past even minor release changes in PG > have
>>> led to incompatibilities this deserves special attention. We'd > kindly ask
>>> you therefore to keep 8.4 available. >
>>> thanks for your understanding,
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/22/2012 06:15 AM, maplabs at light42.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All-
>>>>
>>>>    I just changed the Postgres version to   9.1
>>>>
>>>> install scripts for the applications listed above explicitly call out a
>>>> postgres version  (8.4)
>>>>
>>>> Please check your app install scripts as we transition to the improved
>>>> 9.1 postgres base
>>>> thanks!
>>>>
>>>> ==
>>>> Brian Hamlin
>>>> GeoCal
>>>> OSGeo California Chapter
>>>> 415-717-4462 cell
>>>>