[postgis-users] Ready for 1.0.0 ?

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Hi Markus,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net 
> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On 
> Behalf Of Markus Schaber
> Sent: 03 March 2005 20:55
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Ready for 1.0.0 ?

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> Well, this naming "jdbc2" is just somehow misleading. I just 
> checked in an updated README file, containing the following 
> additional explanation:
> 
> | * It is called jdbc2 - does it work with jdbc3, too? *
> |
> | The current naming is somehow unfortunate. The directory simply is 
> | named jdbc2 because it is the successor of Paul Ramsey's 
> original jdbc
> directory,
> | which still exists in CVS. So, the naming does not refer to 
> SUN jdbc 
> | standard releases jdbc-1, jdbc-2 or jdbc-3.
> |
> | Please note that the PostgreSQL JDBC driver itsself is released in 
> | several flavours for different JDBC relases and sun JDK 
> releases, but 
> | currently, the same postgis.jar should work with all of 
> them. If not, 
> | you clearly found a bug, and we kindly ask you to report it.

Ah, ooops ;) For the Win32 installer, I renamed the files to
postgis.jdbc2.jar to reflect the JDBC version - I'll get rid of this in the
next version....

> To your compiling question: classfile compatibility is 
> something I did not have in mind yet, but you're right. Newer 
> java compilers tend to produce class files that do not work 
> fine with older JVMs.
> 
> If the postgresql jdbc driver you deliver with your installer 
> only runs with java 1.3 or newer, or you document this as 
> requirement, then I think -target 1.3 is a reasonable decision.
> 
> BTW, I successfully compiled postgis using JAVAC="jikes-sun 
> -target 1.1"  for java 1.1 compatibility. :-)

Yes, the PostGIS JDBC driver compiles fine for me with -target 1.1 under the
Sun JDK. I think we should make this the default :)

> Don't forget that there are some some tests in the java 
> directory, too.
> 
> You can use "make alltests" to run them, they test both 
> client and some server functionality, but you will have to 
> set up the database connection info via environment or 
> makefile. I think this will be the first Windows tests for 
> postgis jdbc :-)

The tests appear to run successfully here for me. I just wanted to check
with you as there seem to be multiple entries along the lines of "Finished,
0 tests failed" as opposed to a single grand total at the end. I'll email
the JDBC results to you separately as they are quite long, but it's looking
promising :)


Kind regards,

Mark.

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