[postgis-devel] moving liblwgeom forward

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 05/08/11 19:20, Chris Hodgson wrote:

> Good to hear you've got some funding to do work on PostGIS!

+1. liblwgeom does need quite a bit of love at the moment.

> I'm a little bit worried about the effects of installing liblwgeom into
> the system lib dir on the ability to have multiple different versions of
> PostGIS installed simultaneously (for development, testing, migration,
> etc.). Tell me this won't be any different than it is now and I'll
> probably believe you.
>
> I can't imagine a situation where it makes sense for liblwgeom to have a
> different version than postgis. IIRC the only reason they are separated
> is to provide a C-based interface to test the liblwgeom functions
> without having to go through postgres.

Agreed :)

Let's version liblwgeom the same as PostGIS for the time being so we 
start off with liblwgeom-2.0 and move the numbering to match the 
corresponding PostGIS version.


ATB,

Mark.

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