[pgrouting-dev] 2.0 branch CGAL dependency and GEOS 3.4dev

[Stephen Mather]

That makes sense.  It's funny, cause I am currently pulling my hair out
with the opposite issue-- the cmake minimum not matching what's available
on Ubuntu 12.04, so yes-- no extra headaches in the form of dependency h*ll
should ever be lightly foisted upon the unaware... :).

Best,
Steve




On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Stephen Woodbridge <
woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:

> On 5/10/2013 9:53 AM, Stephen Mather wrote:
>
>> Apologies for the last e-mail with vague subject line.  Another thought
>> on pgRouting dependencies-- any plans for cgal to be dropped once GEOS
>> 3.4 is readily available?  It seems like it could be with Delaunay being
>> on GEO 3.4dev, but I don't know when the line gets moved for minimum
>> GEOS version (obviously sometime after it's no longer a dev version).
>>
>
> Yes, that is the ultimate plan. We have a little chicken vs egg issue in
> that we need the new postgis functions so we can rewrite our code as you
> point out. We also have to be careful to not set the required postgis
> version too high too soon, because that will be a problem for the packagers
> where new releases lag behind.
>
> We have another options:
>
> 1. I have code that I could contribute as an interim solution, but that
> seems like a lot of work.
>
> 2. we could provide both a CGAL (depreciated) and a postgis SQL only
> solution that would only work if you have GEOS 3.4 install.
>
> So we will see how this evolves, given other work, release deadlines, pull
> requests, funding, etc.
>
> Thanks,
>   -Steve W
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