[postgis-devel] OGC *strictness*

[strk at refractions.net]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 01:22:52PM +0100, Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hi, Strk,
> 
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:51:01 +0100
> strk <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> 
> > Since OGC *requires* SRID to be specified
> > in GeomFromWKT() and GeomFromWKB(), shouldn't we drop (at least in 
> > docs) the support for calls w/out it ?
> >
> > If people want to type less can use canonical ascii
> > and binary input or GeomFromEWKT() and GeomFromEKB() instead.
> 
> As we don't lose functionality, I think we can drop it. Issuing a
> warning would be another possibility (and may be good for a grace
> period), but dropping it reduces the amount of code and is the way to
> go.

Actually it would increase it as we are cheating a lot to 
get these OGC strictness..

> Maybe you drop it in the docs now, and add a warning to the code in 1.0
> and 0.9 to tell the people it will disappear in 1.1, and then actually
> remove it in 1.1.

I don't think 0.9 will really have another release.
I vote for just dropping it in the docs, for user-level clearness.

--strk;

> 
> Thanks,
> Markus
> 
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