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

[Greg Troxel]

Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> writes:

> GEOS 3.4 isn't planned to be released before after this summer.
> When do you want PostGIS 2.2 to roll ?

(I have only been dimly paying attention the last year or so due to lack
of spare time, to the point where I have not even managed to package
postgis 2 for pkgsrc.)

Not understanding the details, I find the notion of discussing dropping
support for the current stable release of a dependency to be a bit odd.
When 3.4 is actually released, it will take some time to get it into
packaging systems, which have various release cycles.  So it seems that
in general a postgis release should be ok with any geos release that was
respectable 6 months before the postgis release.

So if you want to say "postgis 2.2 will not be released until 6 months
after the release of a GEOS 3.4 release (which is not known to have
serious problems*)", then I don't see any issue.  One tricky bit is that
often release dates move out, so that puts 2.2 in the indefinite future.

* by which I mean if there's a 3.4, and the vibe is "stay away", and
  3.4.1 is ok, then it's 3.4.1's date that counts.

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