[postgis-devel] Call for 1.5.2 release

[Paragon Corporation]

+1 -- though I would prefer a security patch  to make my windows 7 look like
XP :) 

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[mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Mark
Cave-Ayland
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 5:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Call for 1.5.2 release

Paragon Corporation wrote:

> Yes we should stick with the old one.  The new one I agree is such a 
> major change that it really needs more testing.
> 
> I haven't compiled PostGIS 1.5 in while (and haven't yet so don't know 
> if I will run into issues).  I assume not since Mark made a build for
Windows.
> 
> I didn't notice that Mark L had moved his changes from spike to 1.5.
> 
> But -- why arent' these changes in PostGIS 2.0.  The 2.0 version looks 
> like the old 1.5 unlesss I am mistaken, and I don't see any migrate there.
> Shouldn't that one have the new changes?

Maybe Mark accidentally merged into the wrong branch? Although I think Mark
has done a great job here, I would like to propose that we revert from 1.5
branch and apply to trunk instead.

The aim of point releases is that they should contain bugfixes and not new
features; we should be able to push out a new bugfix release without having
to jump through the same testing hoops we do for a full release.

As Paul also points out, managing training materials is going to be a
nightmare with some 1.5 releases on older versions and some on new versions
- it would be like a Microsoft security update changing the interface on XP
to look like Windows 7. As a project, I feel we need to be much more
disciplined about this.

+1 for reverting from 1.5 branch and re-applying to trunk.


ATB,

Mark.

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