[postgis-tickets] [PostGIS] #3027: postgis.control not installed without raster support

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#3027: postgis.control not installed without raster support
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  Reporter:  springmeyer  |       Owner:  pramsey
      Type:  defect       |      Status:  closed 
  Priority:  medium       |   Milestone:         
 Component:  postgis      |     Version:  2.1.x  
Resolution:  wontfix      |    Keywords:         
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Comment(by robe):

 Dane,

 As Paul said, we decided that a while ago just before 2.0 was released to
 making building with CREATE EXTENSION support require raster.


 You can still install postgis using the old fashioned script approach just
 not CREATE EXTENSION.  These still get installed in contrib.

 Part of the reason for that decision was that raster is growing in
 popularity and GDAL seemed like something we'd eventually want to leverage
 in the rest of PostGIS proper. For example (even though it's Paul's cool
 side project, the ogr_fdw https://github.com/pramsey/pgsql-ogr-fdw
 requires GDAL), and since most PostGIS distributions are required to have
 raster now to get CREATE EXTENSION -- the pgsql-ogr-fdw inclusion will be
 a no-brainer.

 My personal reason -- I wanted to force all the package maintainers to
 carry it and knew by forcing the CREATE EXTENSION (which everyone wanted)
 into there it would be more likely to happen. :)

 This for the most part worked. E.g. PGDG (Both Yum and Apt) and so does
 PostgresApp. I believe FreeBSD does too. So does Amazon RDS, OpenShift and
 list goes on. Sorry for being so sneaky about that. In hindsight I thought
 since GDAL was easy to package in windows, it should be a breeze on Linux
 and Mac. I hadn't counted on the difficulties people had doing that.  Most
 of that is water under the bridge now I hope.

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