[postgis-devel] postgis extension sans raster (only for folks who can't compile with raster support) - PSC Vote and developer/packager comments please

[Greg Troxel]

"Paragon Corporation" <lr at pcorp.us> writes:

> One FreeBSD packager brought up that they can't compile PostGIS with raster
> support because of the QT dependency it drags in among others.  I still
> don't quite understand why that's a big deal.

How long does it take for you to build QT from source?   It's enormous,
and it makes postgresql seem small.  On some of my machines, I've seen
it take multiple hours.

I don't follow why postgis/raster needs qt, though.
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