[postgis-devel] A letter to the Postgis Developers and Packagers

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 07:10:11AM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> On October 23, 2015 at 6:59:30 AM, Greg Troxel (gdt at ir.bbn.com) wrote:
> 
> > If liblwgeom is going to be used by other packages -- and it really 
> > seems it is -- the only reasonable thing to do in the long term is make 
> > it a separate package. (I realize that this may not be reasonable in 
> > the short term.) 
>
> I think a great deal depends on how this new library is going to be used. 
> If the expectation is that it will supplant use of the postgis/liblwgeom for spatialite, qgis, etc, then we should just re-internalize ours so we’re not installing a system library anymore.

Yes, that's the idea. All current clients should be able to switch
to use the new library, even if it has a non-zero cost due to the
forced rename of all symbols.

So I envision a period in which both libraries would exist, to still
support the existing liblwgeom clients.

--strk;