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

[Regina Obe]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On
> Behalf Of Sandro Santilli
> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2018 10:27 AM
> To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Drop the minor in the postgis lib files
> 
> 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).
[Regina Obe] 

Correct and hopefully will be the last version to require such silliness.

> 
> 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;
[Regina Obe] 

You'll be there in IRC right?  I need you to protect me from pramsey.

Thanks,
Regina