[mapserver-dev] [motion] Require GEOS > 3.1

[Stephan Meißl]

+1
Stephan


On 08/18/2013 02:29 PM, thomas bonfort wrote:
> devs,
> 
> While debugging a seemingly unrelated issue, we discovered a problem
> with the GEOS error handling (namely the mapserver error handlers
> being overriden by the OGR ones), c.f.
> https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/4733#issuecomment-22694155
> The clean fix to this is to use the GEOS thread-safe api, available
> from  version 3.1 onwards (released in 2009), and thus to require at
> least that version for mapserver. GDAL/OGR made the switch very
> recently, so this does not seem like an extra-ordinary requirement:
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2013-August/036877.html
> 
> motion: require at least GEOS version 3.1 for mapserver 6.4 and onward.
> 
> +1 thomas
> 
> best regards,
> thomas