[MapServer-dev] Dropping support for PROJ <6 and GDAL <3

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+1

Jérome

Le 05/06/2023 à 19:34, Tom Kralidis a écrit :
> +1
>
> ..Tom
>
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 1:00 PM Steve Lime <sdlime at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     +1 from me as well - simpler code is a great outcome and should be
>     a goal these days. I'd also support SWIG 4 although I wonder how
>     widespread it is - especially on enterprise Linux distros.
>
>     On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 1:35 PM Seth G <sethg at geographika.co.uk> wrote:
>
>         Hi Even,
>
>         +1 from me - as you write removing those multiple PROJ code
>         paths will simplify the code base greatly in some places.
>         Does GEOS have similar issues? There don't seem to be any
>         version checks in MapServer apart from some comments in the
>         Python MapScript bindings "Requires GEOS support (>=3.0)".
>
>         I'd also like to propose we only support SWIG 4 and higher,
>         and begin removing Python2 specific code (I can look at these
>         two items).
>
>         Seth
>
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>
>         On Sat, Jun 3, 2023, at 5:15 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         > I've prepared 2 pull requests
>         > https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/6900 and
>         > https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/6901 to
>         respectively drop
>         > support for PROJ < 6 and GDAL < 3 for MapServer 8.2
>         >
>         > Any opposition to that?
>         >
>         > Those older versions haven't been supported anymore and for
>         a long time
>         > by their respective projects, the proposed minimal versions
>         have been
>         > released 4 years ago and our CI doesn't test the dropped
>         versions
>         > anymore, so I believe it is safe to proceed.
>         >
>         > The PROJ < 6 drop removes quite a bunch of code paths so it
>         is a nice
>         > cleanup. The GDAL < 3 has modest impacts, but anyway having
>         PROJ >= 6
>         > and GDAL < 3 doesn't make sense as this is a rather
>         unsupported combination.
>         >
>         > Even
>         >
>         > --
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>         >
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