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

[Brian Hamlin]

hmmm I would say it this way
OSGeo Live is a showcase of OSGeo software, no?

PostGIS 2.0 went final in April of 2012,
after two years+ of development and many thousands of hours of testing
put another way, it is now six months after 2.0 was released, and  
will be nine by the time the Live ships
I am personally familiar with almost every upgrade issue, they are  
all very contained

I suggest that PostGIS 2.0 become the default for the Live on this  
release
all data sets are moved over, which I can do and others can help
and that 1.5 is offered as a side option/hack for projects that  
*truly have unsolved problems*
no standard datasets in 1.5, only 2.0+

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Brian Hamlin
OSGeo California Chapter
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On Nov 19, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> On 20/11/12 07:59, Brian Hamlin wrote:
>> 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
>
> Ideally, I'd like to see only one version of PostGIS installed.  
> Reasons:
> * Reduce confusion from new users questioning which version of  
> postgis to use.
> * Reduce disk space used - would we need to load our default  
> datasets into both versions of PostGIS?
>
> So I question whether we update all applications which make use of  
> PostGIS.
>
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