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

[Regina Obe]

Strk,

We discussed this at the sprint and I wore pramsey down enough so he agreed.  

So are you okay with me pushing ahead with this?

As mentioned the default behavior is the lib file will be called postgis-3.whatever, rtpostgis-3.whatever

This also has the benefit that all the lib files will be kept in synch so you don't end up with the disaster of running say an older postgis_sfcgal , postgis_topology 
Than your postgis and backends of liblwgeoms fighting with each other.

We will allow people building their own, developers testing, or packagers the ability to keep the current behavior if they so choose by doing configure such as

./configure --add-lib-minor



> -----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).
> 
> 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;
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