[postgis-devel] VOTE: Drop GEOS 3.3 support at PostGIS 2.2

[Sandro Santilli]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 05:06:18AM -0400, Paragon Corporation wrote:
> I would imagine 6 months from now at earliest at rate we go perhaps even
> longer. 

I think we should keep support for deps which are packaged with
a debian stable release. This is unlikely to happen in 6 months.

--strk;

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> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] VOTE: Drop GEOS 3.3 support at PostGIS 2.2
> 
> On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 11:53:45PM -0400, Paragon Corporation wrote:
> > Yes definitely.  I personally think we should require at least 3.4.0 
> > for 2.2
> > 
> > The list of stuff that will be left out for 3.3 users is already too 
> > silly for me at 2.1  and will be even sillier in 2.2 especially if we 
> > get the voroni stuff in place currently being worked on by Gsoc 
> > student.
> > 
> > 2.2 to take full advantage would require geos 3.5 actually unless the 
> > voroni stuff is put in before 3.4 goes out the door.
> > 
> > Strk in particular -- your thoughts
> 
> GEOS 3.4 isn't planned to be released before after this summer.
> When do you want PostGIS 2.2 to roll ?