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

[Sandro Santilli]

My rule of thumb is "allow building on latest Debian stable".
That is currently "Debian 9, aka stretch", so let's see.

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:40:02AM -0400, Regina Obe wrote:

> 1) Drop support for PostgreSQL 9.4 and 9.5  (so PostgreSQL 9.6 - PostgreSQL

Debian 9 stretch LTS ships 9.6, so +1

> 2) Make GEOS 3.5+ the minimum (for 2.4  GEOS 3.4 was the minimum)  - we've
> got too much stuff that requires 3.5 already that is turned off for lower
> and newer GEOS has some robustness improvements. 

Debian 9 stretch LTS ships 3.5, so +1

> 3) Make Proj 4.9+ the minimum currently our minimum is proj 4.7 I think.  As
> discussed it's on the table to redo some of the geography stuff like
> ST_Segmentize using proj 4.9+ features.

Debian 9 stretch LTS ships 4.9, so +1

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