[postgis-devel] postgis_letters in project tree?

[Paul Ramsey]

I'm thinking of converting the letter/font table into a function with a fixed collection of letters, so that an install involves just two functions ST_GeomFromLetter(letter) and ST_GeomFromWord(text). ST_GeomFromLetter can be expanded over time to include additional letters for other language charsets. That matches the capabilities of the system to the needs.

> On Jan 27, 2022, at 8:59 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
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> Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> writes:
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>> No deps. The font set in the current postgis_letters repo is 250K
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> No deps and a binary package size change of 250K on top of 20 MB is not
> worth worrying about.   Having seen the examples I totally get why this
> is good to just always have installed so people can easily play with it.