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

[Nicklas Avén]

I agree that putting it in core is the best, but I have no problem respecting if you don't want it there either. 




Thanks


Nicklas


2013-06-17 Sandro Santilli  wrote:

+1 to threat TWKB as core --strk;
>
>On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 09:44:37PM -0400, Paragon Corporation wrote:
>>  
>> 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-----
>> From: postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [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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