[postgis-devel] PostGIS Development Roadmap

[Tom Lane]

Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> writes:
> Obe, Regina wrote:
>> As long as we keep the old versions available and patched as needed its
>> probably a non-issue.  

> Oh sure. We'd at least keep the 1.3 branch going for older users, but we 
> would of course encourage new applications to be developed on the latest 
> version.

Sure.  As long as you do maintenance on the existing branches, I don't
see why PostGIS 1.4 couldn't require PG 8.latest-at-time-of-release.
Why would people expect or want to install a PostGIS major update on an
old PG?

			regards, tom lane