[postgis-devel] Note to Package Maintainers

[Rader, David]

Hi Regina,
Thank you and thank you for the suggestions. We pushed 2.3.0 yesterday and
will be looking in to the other items. I agree, ogr_fdw should be pretty
easy. The idea of making our distribution more compatible with the standard
PostGIS options makes sense.

One area we know we need is more docs on building extensions under mingw64
so that it's easier for users to add their own. This should help
PostGIS users as well as general developers.

Thanks
Dave


On Friday, October 7, 2016, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

> David,
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> Done.
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> Added here –
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> http://postgis.net/install/  (at bottom. Also added EDB since that was
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> Couple of observations installing the BigSQL 9.6 windows 64-bit
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> 1)      I got PostGIS 2.3.0rc1 instead of the released PostGIS 2.3.0.
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> 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
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> Which gets me to my next couple of points
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> http://postgis.net/windows_downloads/
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> 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,
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> so that this page isn't so EDB weighted.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> PostGIS isn't compiled with SFCGAL support.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
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> Regina
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> *From:* postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
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> *Subject:* Re: [postgis-devel] Note to Package Maintainers
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> From: *Regina Obe* <lr at pcorp.us
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> 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
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> 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
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> 1) A specific mailing list for PostGIS Packagers
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> We (OpenSCG/BigSQL distribution) would like the packagers list.
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> We would also like to update this page:
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> http://postgis.net/install/
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> To include all PostGIS packagers that people use as well as link to their
> bug tracker if any.
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> Any thoughts on above or updates to the page you'd like to provide us?
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> 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:
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> http://www.bigsql.org/docs/postgis/postgis.jsp
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> Please let us know what other info you would need to be able to add this
> stable version to the install page?
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> Thanks
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> Dave
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> Thanks,
> Regina Obe
> PostGIS PSC Member
> http://postgis.net
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