[postgis-devel] PostGIS 2.5 what should be minimum requirements?

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 09/29/2017 06:28 PM, Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski wrote:
> Please don't hesitate to raise minimum versions to latest released at the
> time of release.
> If someone needs an older version, they are free to comment out the checks
> and build at their own risk.
> Otherwise we're going to have distros with older versions of libraries,
> because "it's not required to upgrade so let's not".

Or distributions are forced to stick to older versions of the libraries
because the newer versions cannot be integrated properly with all their
reverse dependencies. As is currently the case for GEOS >= 3.6.

Distributions want newer library versions because they contain bugfixes
required for toolchain updates and the like.

If distributions stick to old library versions not due to the above,
it's most likely caused by lack of manpower to work on those packages.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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