[postgis-devel] PostGIS release

Stephen Frost sfrost at snowman.net
Wed Jul 11 09:17:00 PDT 2007


* Paul Ramsey (pramsey at refractions.net) wrote:
> We can simply cut the release without the geocode tree.

That's fine with me.  Or, if you'd prefer, we could include it with a
big warning in the README or similar that it's subject to change...

Either way is fine by me.

	Thanks,

		Stephen

> Mark Leslie wrote:
>> That's a good question.  As far as getting into svn, we weren't
>> expecting a stable and perfect geocoding solution.  Mostly we just
>> wanted to get it in there for ease of maintenance.
>> You are quite right though.  Once people start using it, we don't want
>> to break their applications.  I wouldn't worry too much about the table
>> structure, but if you feel changes need to be made to the results of
>> geocode() it would be best to do it before releasing.
>> Mark
>> Stephen Frost wrote:
>>> * Mark Leslie (mark at refractions.net) wrote:
>>>> Does anyone have any outstanding fixes or functionality they need to get
>>>> in before a release?
>>> This doesn't go to those questions but it's something which just occured
>>> to me.
>>>
>>> What kind of stability (if any) are you looking for wrt the tiger
>>> geocoder?  I'd call it "somewhat" stable right now but without any
>>> guarentee that the structure currently returned from geocode() is going
>>> to remain the same or that the table structures won't change in a future
>>> revision.  If we want it to be stable I'd like a bit more time before
>>> the first official release of it.  I'd also want to know when we *can*
>>> make changes for it and if we can create branches, etc, to help maintain
>>> the 'stable' vs. 'development' versions..
>>>
>>> 	Thanks!
>>>
>>> 		Stephen
>>>
>>>
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