[Live-demo] which version of PostGIS on OSGeo-Live? What apps will be effected?

[Brian Hamlin]

On Nov 19, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:

> On 11/19/2012 11:57 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> On 20/11/12 00:39, Daniel Kastl wrote:
>>> Are there any plans to upgrade PostGIS to version 2.0? Because this
>>> could require some additional work for pgrouting then as it's not  
>>> the
>>> default PostGIS version of 12.04 and 12.10
>>
.....
>>
>>
>
> Postgis 2.0 from ubuntugis-unstable (no change to the script  
> required to
> get that).
>
> Some projects may not be able to use 2.0 yet, for those we should also
> retain 1.5. As Brian has pointed out it should be possible to have  
> both.
>
> Possible method:
> Install Postgis 1.5 from ubuntu stock repos, then add ubuntugis to apt
> and install 2.0. 1.5 sql files might remain on the system which would
> then give us both. We'd want to make 2 different template dbs one  
> thats
> 1.5 using the same name we have now and then a postgis 2.0 template
> under a different name so projects that want to use it can.
>


   I can absolutely do this, my main concern is FUD from others abuot  
non-standard installs
The PostGIS core team has been building and using 1.5 and 2.0 side by  
side for more than two years
of course it works..  but there is a small matter of defaults, etc

   -Brian

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