[postgis-devel] Code sprint notes

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Mark Leslie wrote:

> I've been trying to take part in principal in the Toronto code sprint, 
> though my sleeping and working hours mean I'm online when the live 
> participants are offline.
> 
> At any rate, I've been browsing the notes on the wiki and there are a 
> few points that overlap with what I'm working on.  I've just committed 
> some parser fixes to handle the CompoundCurve type properly.  I'm 
> currently working on handling of the sql-mm WKB input and it looks like 
> there will be no immediate conflict with our current WKB type definitions.

Thanks for the patch Mark, this looks good.

> On my todo list but not yet underway is handling the sql-mm z/m as well 
> as our convensions in the WKT parser and getting the sql-mm st_asbinary 
> and st_astext outputting properly (though this will likely be a breaking 
> change, so I haven't sorted it yet).

The short version is that we want to minimise 1.4 changes to encourage 
people to upgrade from 1.3, and things that are likely to break 
applications will wait until 2.0.

BTW we were hoping to get a 1.4 beta released over the next few days, so 
I suspect the SQL-MM changes will have to wait for 1.5 at the earliest.


ATB,

Mark.

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