[postgis-devel] Vote on Merging postgis and raster installs and when

[Paul Ramsey]

I am more on Regina's side, it doesn't harm us to have everything installed, and it only makes the user experience more simple. In for a penny, in for pound,

P.

On 2012-01-02, at 8:37 AM, "Paragon Corporation" <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

> 
>> I'm not a big fan of monolithic systems.
> I am -- I hate stuff I can't count on not being there especially if I don't
> have the ability to compile my own.
> E.g. it drives me nuts when the packager decides to package an antiquated
> GEOS and half the things I need
> are disabled as a result. The same I see with raster. 
> 
>> What's the rationale for forcing anyone who only needs 
>> vectors to also have support for rasters ? 
>> 
> Even for projects I won't really need core raster 
> for, I plan to use it for in the database reporting -- e.g. outputting
> geometries in my report writer without need 
> for extra mapping software.
> 
> 
>> Seems more of a packaging issue to me, and I see packagers 
>> usually do more splitting than upstream (breaking packages in 
>> -core, -dev, -utils, -doc, ...)
> 
> Well - I need to know now.  Because when I had raster as a separate
> extension, I distinctly remember
> Paul saying -- "Why don't you have it as part of postgis extension?"
> 
> So I merged them.  I can't have some postgis 2.0.0 extensions having raster
> support and some not. Since an extension is
> more than packaging.  It means -- these are the functions you have -- no
> pick and choose.  If it is then it has to be a separate extension.
> 
> For PostGIS 2.0.0 -- raster is a big piece of it.  It would be a shame for
> people to not get vector support just
> because their package manager felt they didn't need it.  Trust me there will
> be some of those and it will be the same annoying issue
> I have to deal with when I have to compile my own PostGIS  because the
> packager decided I didn't need all my functions and gave  me a
> half-assed version of GEOS.
> 
> Thanks,
> REgina
> 
> 
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