[postgis-devel] json-c for postgis

[Paul Ramsey]

This is the Json input function. The XML and gml inputs are why we have limxml2 as a dependency now. So... I think your criterion around the dependency being widely available is good (not that it applies to either gdal or geos, oops! :)

P.

On 2011-08-17, at 4:58 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:

> [postgis-devel included]
> 
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:55:35PM +0200, Kashif Rasul wrote:
>> 
>> I am trying to tackle ticket:
>> 
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/376
>> 
>> by using the json-c library for postgis. Do you think thats a good
>> idea? One would need to have json-c as a dependency. However it will
>> make it easier to add geojson support.
> 
> I dunno much about json-c library.
> Which license is it distributed with ?
> How big is it ? Can we include it rather than linking it ?
> We don't want to depend on anything which isn't packaged
> on Debian stable.
> 
> Are you sure it's worth a library ? KML and GML outputs are
> done w/out any external library...
> 
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