[postgis-devel] VOTE: TWKB in PostGIS, what do you think?

[Paragon Corporation]

Nicklas,

If everyone is okay with just accepting your TWKB when we branch 2.2 I'm not
even sure its worth the effort gong thru the hassle of making it an
extension.

To me your TWKB falls in boat with raster/sfcgal (but really more with the
other input/output functions).  While it may make sense to make it an
extension, it makes even less sense as an extension (compared to
raster/sfcgal) because you are not adding 
Any additional dependencies, AND you will need to be in line with liblwgeom,
and you've only got a couple of functions.

pgRouting doesn't even rely on compiling against any PostGIS headers and
just uses the PostGIS public SQL api so its not a model for you unless you
want to rewrite everything to be less efficient. 

We are as Bborie said probably a year away from releasing 2.2 at the rate
that we move, so if you put it in 2.2. and for some reason we need to take
it out before release, no big whoop.

+1 from me for just treating it as part of core.

Anyone else have an opinion.

Thanks,
Regina


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 1:57 PM
To: nicklas.aven at jordogskog.no; PostGIS Development Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] TWKB in PostGIS, what do you think?

On Sunday, June 16, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Nicklas Avén wrote:
> I ask because it was mentioned earlier today that when PostGIS 
> Schanges to cmake all dependencies also will. Is that because it is 
> convenient or necessary?

That's a slight mis-reading. If we start building PostGIS with MSVC (driven
by cmake) we'll have to build all the dependencies with MSVC too (driven by
something or other). The whole point is to avoid mixing build tools over the
entire software stack, to remove the niggly issues we've been seeing mixing
MSVC components with Mingw components.

P

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