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

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 29 September 2017 at 18:28, Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski
<me at komzpa.net> 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".

+1 someone has to drive the general public towards the new age

> If somebody updates postgis outside of their distro's release cycle, they're
> doing it at their risk already, so no reason not to drag newer libraries in.
> Usually they don't break too much ABI to postpone.

However, there is one major citizen worth to watch for breaking changes, PROJ.4
http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/proj/2017-June/007697.html

Best regards,
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Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net