[postgis-devel] Note to Package Maintainers

[Regina Obe]

David,

 

Done.

 

Added here – 

 

http://postgis.net/install/  (at bottom. Also added EDB since that was missing)

 

 

Couple of observations installing the BigSQL 9.6 windows 64-bit

 

1)      I got PostGIS 2.3.0rc1 instead of the released PostGIS 2.3.0.

2)      It would be really neat if you distributed ogr_fdw as well, which should be fairly trivial compile since you are packaging GDAL and it's so useful for spatial ETL stuff - https://github.com/pramsey/pgsql-ogr-fdw  

 

Which gets me to my next couple of points

 

I mentioned BigSQL here:

http://postgis.net/windows_downloads/

 

 

Ideally I would like to provide details of how people can add PostGIS related components missing in BigSQL windows distribution to theirs or try out some interim builds of things,

so that this page isn't so EDB weighted.

 

Not sure if that would be kosher with you folks or not.  The optimal goal being that we are completely compatible and our components are swappable.

I think they are for the most part now, except for the SFCGAL/ogr_fdw can't just be swapped in without completely replacing your PostGIS since our GDALs are compiled with different features and your 

PostGIS isn't compiled with SFCGAL support.

 

For the most part for example, the pgRouting on that page installs fine on the BigSQL distribution if I pay careful attention to the difference in path locations you have vs. the EDB distribution.

I think I had tried PostGIS too and was able to swap out yours with the one I compiled that includes SFCGAL support last I tried with your PostgreSQL 9.6beta

 

I'm currently using mingw64 gcc 4.8.3 but still planning to upgrade to the gcc 4.9.2 that you guys use for building, so our versions should be even more compatible in the future.

 

Thanks,

Regina

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Rader, David
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 1:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Note to Package Maintainers

 

 

 

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From: Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us <mailto:lr at pcorp.us> >
Date: Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 9:32 AM
Subject: [postgis-devel] Note to Package Maintainers
To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org> >


The PostGIS PSC would like to setup a list of package maintainers we'd use
primarily for release preannouncements where we deem necessary.
This list can take one of two forms, but not sure which people would be most
comfortable with:

1) A specific mailing list for PostGIS Packagers

 

We (OpenSCG/BigSQL distribution) would like the packagers list. 

 

 


We would also like to update this page:

http://postgis.net/install/

To include all PostGIS packagers that people use as well as link to their
bug tracker if any.

Any thoughts on above or updates to the page you'd like to provide us?

 

We would like to add the BigSQL distribution to the install page as well - we provide an easy install path for Windows, OS X, and Windows users. We have been supporting PostGIS through this distribution since the beginning of the year - the instructions are here:

http://www.bigsql.org/docs/postgis/postgis.jsp

 

Please let us know what other info you would need to be able to add this stable version to the install page?

 

 

Thanks

Dave

 

 


Thanks,
Regina Obe
PostGIS PSC Member
http://postgis.net




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