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

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 03/01/12 19:54, Paul Ramsey wrote:

> I think GDAL should be mandatory, but older GEOS should be OK (we've
> gone to the trouble of stubbing those functions for a reason,
> presumably. A configure WARNING makes sense, so at least ignorance
> won't be an excuse.
>
> P.

Hmmm but doesn't this undermine your earlier argument about keeping 
everything the same? The reason I spent time making PROJ/GEOS mandatory 
was because of the many issues we had stemmed from developers having 
different combinations of libraries installed - so for example I could 
commit a patch against PostGIS and have it pass regression without 
having PROJ installed locally, whereas someone else with PROJ could have 
it fail regression because it was never checked on my system.

I'd much prefer to bump the minimum version of GEOS to give both users 
and developers a consistent experience rather than to keep stubbing 
functions against various different versions :(


ATB,

Mark.

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