[postgis-devel] LWGEOM - layout

strk at refractions.net strk at refractions.net
Sat Sep 18 09:43:21 PDT 2004


On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 09:33:18AM -0700, David Blasby wrote:
> strk,
> 
> Isnt this going to cause no end of confusion?
> 
> Arent people used to just grabbing the head and getting postgis?  Now
> they're going to grab the head, see "postgis*.c" files, but actually
> get LWGEOM.
> 
> Shouldnt you make a LWGEOM branch?
> 
> dave

My goal is reducing confusion.
People grabbing head will get postgis, since LWGEOM is what
postgis will be in the future.
People willing to get old (HWGEOM) code will be able to do
so using the pgis_0_9_0 branch.

--strk(open_to_further_discussion);

> 
> 
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 09:59:43 +0200, strk at refractions.net
> <strk at refractions.net> wrote:
> > Hello listers,
> > CVS of postgis got a branch.
> > The HEAD is intended for 1.0.0 development, which will be LWGEOM based.
> > The 0.9.x branch is tagget pgis_0_9_0 (HWGEOM based).
> > 
> > My plan is to get rid of HWGEOM stuff from the HEAD branch, moving
> > LWGEOM stuff one directory up. For simplicity sake lwgeom_* files
> > can be renamed to postgis_* sometimes substituting old files,
> > sometimes being new files.
> > Library could be called libpostgis-1.0.0 instead of liblwgeom...
> > 
> > Comments ? Fears ?
> > Let me know.
> > 
> > --strk;
> > 
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