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

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 24/05/12 22:09, 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?

Since you know a lot more about raster than I do, I'm happy with this as 
long as we update the documentation so things are clear, and as per my 
previous email we force configure to fail with a clear error message if 
the libraries are not recent enough.

+1.


ATB,

Mark.