[postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Drop the minor in the postgis lib files

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 11:43:42AM -0400, Regina Obe wrote:

> 1) Much smoother pg_upgrade for users.  Right now whenever anyone needs to
> use pg_upgrade, they need to install  an older postgis in their newer
> install or use a hack to symlink the old name to the new name
> 2) By dropping the Minor, this pain goes away, and also means we don't need
> to always support newer versions of PostgreSQL on older versions of PostGIS
> as long as we release before the PostgreSQL version.

Please correct me if I'm wrong: the current 2.5.0 -> 3.0.0 would still
require the aforementioned pain, as we incremented Major version (for
unclear reasons, if you ask me).

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 08:48:39AM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Any chance we could defer this one for face-to-face at sprint?

I won't be there (oh maybe that's a great reason to do so :)

--strk;