[postgis-devel] Common Code

[Paul Ramsey]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 02:39:54PM -0700, Chris Hodgson wrote:
>
>> We really should fix the caching so that they don't overwrite each
>> other, that bug has been around a long time ... however apparently
>> we don't exercise that code path much because there aren't too many
>> complaints about it. All the more reason for making them more easily
>> testable as per Mark's suggestion.
>>
>> Hopefully strk's lwgeom work aligns well with Mark's plan?
>
> My current plan is just taking liblwgeom out there, with at least
> all GEOS (base + extra) functions in it. Attach to it an easily
> expiring version (SONAME = liblwgeom-2.0 or similar) and see what
> happens.
>
> I don't have enough fundings to add more, and would actually like
> to take most interfaces out, for the sake of stability.

Could be quite a bit of work, I have been personally amazed how much
stuff I might consider "core" liblwgeom is called from postgis. Much
has been isolated, but much still remains.

P.

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