[postgis-devel] Enabling wagyu by default

[Greg Troxel]

Raúl Marín Rodríguez <rmrodriguez at carto.com> writes:

>> Presumably this does not change the required version of C++, and would
>> not cause postgis to fail to build anyplace it builds now.  Or I am
>> guessing that is a hypothesis and it is of course not really known.
>
> This introduces a new requirement as you'll need C++11 to build with
> this option.
> Beforehand, you only needed a C99 compiler.

That's pretty huge, but

> My current guess is that any platform that was able to build postgis
> should be able
> to build also with wagyu as a C++11 compiler was already a requirement
> for other dependencies (GEOS, GDAL...), but as it is introducing the
> direct dependency
> I'd like to have test it in the while during the alpha period.

as you say given that one needed C++11 for geos, and needed geos for
postgis, postgis required C++11 anyway.

Still, it needs to be in README and NEWS.