[postgis-devel] Minimum version of GDAL for PostGIS 2.1

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 02:09:19PM -0700, dustymugs wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Now that PostGIS-trunk is targeting 2.1, I'd like to start a
> discussion for setting a new minimum version of GDAL required
> for PostGIS.
> Supporting 1.6 is a pain and the last release was in November
> 2009.  The ideal would be 1.9 due to GDALFPolygonize and
> various other improvements regarding burning geometries to rasters.
> 
> Personally, I'd like to up the minimum to 1.8.  Thoughts?

Fine by me. Due to GEOS dependency I have to build GDAL from
sources anyway so there's no relying on package managers.

 +1

--strk;