PostGIS 3.5.0alpha2 released supports PG17

[Regina Obe]

Thanks Greg for testing.

> "Regina Obe" <lr at pcorp.us> writes:
> 
> > https://postgis.net/2024/07/PostGIS-3.5.0alpha2/
> >
> > NEWS:
> > https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/postgis/postgis/raw/tag/3.5.0alpha2/NEWS
> > Source:
> > https://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-3.5.0alpha2.tar.gz
> 
> Maybe you want this in the tracker, but it's all over the place so seems
more
> helpful to just comment broadly to start:
> 
>   I have pgsql 12 installed on NetBSD 10 amd64, with geo prereqs
>   basically at latest release.
> 
>   package update uneventual; just new sql files as usual
> 
>   make test has one failure, and I don't think this is a regression,
>   just something I have not chased down.  But really this is pretty good.
> 
>       Test: test_spheroid_distance ...FAILED
>       1. cu_geodetic.c:1355  -
> CU_ASSERT_DOUBLE_EQUAL(d,10001965.7293127228117396,epsilon)

Hmm has this one always failed, or this is the only one so better than past?
I think we did change geodetic, Paul remember or we didn't except in a micro
change, so micro releases might be impacted as well

> 
>       Run Summary:    Type  Total    Ran Passed Failed Inactive
>                    suites     46     46    n/a      0        0
>                     tests    339    339    338      1        0
>                   asserts   5471   5471   5470      1      n/a
> 
>   NEWS says "DocBook5 XSL is now required to build html (Sandro
>   Santilli)".  pkgsrc has docbook-xsl-1.79.2.  README.postgis gives a
>   debian package name but doesn't describe it, and there's a "-ns"
>   suffix.  So this is sort of a doc bug report.  Looking quickly it
>   seems that the docbook-xsl situation is messy.   Is it really the case
>   that almost every packaging system has this already?

I think the thinking for this is now that we no longer require install of
comments to build extensions building with docs is not absolutely necessary.
And if people really want the docs, they can always pull them from news
release links.
Speaking of which I still have to figure out why Debbie is not building the
comments.

>   When docs are selected and the build fails, the overall build seems to
>   exit 0 anyway, so I didn't notice that the docs build failed.
>   Probably it failed and I didn't notice long ago and there are no docs
>   installed and thus not in our PLIST.
> 
It might have worked before but docbook5 is a new requirement in 3.5.0 

>   This is the doc build log run through uniq -c, because otherwise it's
>   almost a megabyte.  Probably this is at least partially "docbook 5
>   missing".   But it's a big list of binary plugins - are they part of
>   docbook5 xsl, or ?
> 
>     1 /tmp/work/databases/postgresql-postgis2/work/.tools/bin/gmake -C doc
> html
>     1 gmake[2]: Entering directory '/tmp/work/databases/postgresql-
> postgis2/work/postgis-3.5.0alpha2/doc'
>     1 /usr/pkg/bin/xsltproc --path .:/tmp/work/databases/postgresql-
> postgis2/work/postgis-3.5.0alpha2/doc --param section.autolabel 1 --param
> section.label.includes.component.label 1 --param chunk.section.depth 0 --
> param generate.section.toc.level 2 --param toc.section.depth 1 --param
> funcsynopsis.style kr --param admon.graphics 1 --param admon.textlabel 0
--
> param make.clean.html 1 --param simplesect.in.toc 0 --param
> use.id.as.filename 1 --param chunk.quietly 1 --param header.rule 0 --param
> footer.rule 0 --param table.borders.with.css 1 --stringparam
> docbook.css.source "" --stringparam html.ext .html --stringparam
> saxon.character.representation decimal --timing \

Have no clue -- Sandro you know?