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

Paul Ramsey pramsey at opengeo.org
Fri May 25 22:39:09 PDT 2012


+1

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>
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