[postgis-devel] Making SFCGAL mandatory

[Greg Troxel]

"Regina Obe" <lr at pcorp.us> writes:

>> But it sounds like multiple people think it isn't stable, and therefore:
>> 
>>   we should change the configure logic to default it to off, and when
>>   it's on, to fail hard if not found
>
> I thought it was already defaulted to off?  

configure.ac sets it to auto.

> Though I guess if we released 2.5 as default on "if found" we can't change
> that.

It's a bug fix :-)  Anybody that wants it just has to add --enable, and
many others will be spared an accidental dependency.

> Correct.  It very well might happen before we release 3.0, but my feeling is
> it's too early to make that call.

Hard to believe.  Being stable requires  a multi-year track record.