[pgrouting-dev] PostGIS and pgRouting

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 9/10/2010 10:17 AM, Anton Patrushev wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> Today we have very interesting discussion with PostGIS team at the
> FOSS4G 2010 Codesprint.
> It suddenly happened that PostGIS wants to make pgRouting its part
> somewhere closer to 2.1 release next year.

Wow, I think this would be great! I would definitely be + 1 on this.

> It requires some work from both sides of course (mostly from our
> side), but the goal is feasible in this time I think.
> It is mostly cleaning up the code and (oh no!) documentation, getting
> rid of some dependencies (I am also dying to remove CGAL), blending

What is CGAL used for? the Traveling Salesman solutions?

> into their building procedure and infrastructure. They are going to
> migrate to cmake (the thing we already have) and are waiting for some
> help from our side.
>
> I think it is win-win situation - PostGIS gets cool new feature while
> pgRouting hopefully gets bigger user and I hope developer base,
> becomes a part of fantastic big project and sneaks to OSGeo for free
> :-)
>
> I don't put this for voting yet and keep from discussing first steps,
> because this movement is still to be approved by PostGIS PSC, but I
> wanted share the exciting news and I'm dying to know your opinion.

Thanks! This is indeed exciting news and very much a win-win.

-Steve