[postgis-devel] autobuild cleanup

[Obe, Regina]

Kevin,
 
In general I agree with you that non-version tagged (except for SVN) should be available as prebuilt tars.
 
The 1.3.4 seems to be very popular though since it has JSON and some other minor nice enhancements and is not riske.
 
I think we are in a bit of an odd situation in the sense that the SVN is probably too SVNish except for the bravest of brave and people are forced to go to SVN to get the 1.3.4
 
Would be nice if we could have the 1.3.4 tar available for download.  But if that's a lot of trouble, I suppose we could live with not having it.  

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From: postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net on behalf of Kevin Neufeld
Sent: Fri 9/12/2008 1:40 PM
To: PostGIS Development Discussion
Subject: [postgis-devel] autobuild cleanup



Just so I'm clear on a few things...

1. The PostGIS documentation website
(http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation) has a link to the 1.3
version documentation.  This is actually built from the 1.3 branch
(currently 1.3.4), NOT the last stable tagged release 1.3.3.  Is this
really what we want?  The Downloads section does not have a link to
postgis-1.3.4.tar.gz, only the latest stable tagged releases.  This is
noticeable if you look at the 1.3 manual
(http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.3/), the download
link in section 2.2 is broken.  I don't think we should be referencing
non-tagged versions (except svn trunk of course) ... but that's just my
two cents.

2. If the issue in #1 is fixed to reference the last stable release,
then the autobuild for 1.3 can simply be to checkout and build the code
and email parties responsible for breaking it.  I can remove the 1.3
documentation update and code tarballing for postgis-1.3.4.

3. Once the above is resolved, the generated PDF doc should be the same
version as the html.

Thoughts?
-- Kevin
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