[postgis-devel] Postgis issue suggestions for OSGeo sprint?

[Paul Ramsey]

I think a lot of these are actionable now, either in 1.5 or 2.0. And
as Mark says, there is also a big feature possibility out there in a
GUI dumper.

P

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> On 08/03/11 18:07, Jeff Adams wrote:
>
>> Let me be a little more specific.  I was browsing the trac tickets and
>> noticed there are several old (1-2 years) ones around shp2pgsql. Like
>> these:
>>
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/67
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/110
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/123
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/229
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/357
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/358
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/393
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/398
>>
>> Does shp2pgsql just not get a lot of love?  Or is there a high level
>> plan or architectural reason not to do these tickets?  It seems like the
>> kind of thing I could sit down with and knock out a few patches next week.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> The main reason for a lot of these tickets not getting any attention were
> that the original versions of shp2pgsql and pgsql2shp suffered from poor
> code quality, with lots of subtle differences between its internal parsers
> and the standard PostGIS ones. Hence it made more sense to rewrite the
> majority of the code before adding in extra features like these.
>
> As of 1.5/trunk, these beloved utilities got the care and attention they
> needed with a major rewrite from the ground up and so it is probably worth
> reviewing some of these tickets again during the sprint. There is also some
> low-hanging fruit with regard to exposing some of the extra features via the
> GUI, improving various parts of the trunk GUI code and even creating a
> combined GUI incorporating pgsql2shp functionality too.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Mark.
>
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