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

[Jeff McKenna]

+1

(I know that I've recently had to modify our CI structure for changes in 
both PHP and Python supported versions - I'd like to start a document 
listing all of these supported library versions, likely at the MapServer 
repository root, which will be easy to find for the user [especially as 
8.2.0 will have a cleaner repository structure, through issue #6937 ]

-jeff



On 2023-06-03 12:15 p.m., 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
>