[postgis-users] Roadmap for next major release of PostGIS

[Chris Hermansen]

Guys, guys, guys.

Look back at my original posting and you will see that ONLY GEOS is 
behind.  PostGIS is up to date, as is Proj.

I understand what you're going on about in general but this was a 
specific comment directed toward the developers in the hopes that they 
could offer some "hints" in their new build process to ensure that 
something important like GEOS 3.x wouldn't get left out.

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Attila Csipa wrote:
>> On Wednesday 28 May 2008 19:19:05 Chris Hermansen wrote:
>>> I'm sad to see that a newer version of GEOS didn't make it to 8.04.  I
>>> If I'm wrong in my assumption - heck, maybe there are good reasons to
>>> prefer Geos 2.2.x against the most up to date release - please feel 
>>> free
>>> to chastise me firmly!
>>
>> You will find that almost all web-mapping/gis related packages in 
>> Ubuntu 8.04 are far from bleeding edge (GDAL 1.4.4, Mapserver 5.0, 
>> Mapnik 0.4) so I don't think it is a single package slip-up but 
>> rather a choice for a whole bunch. It might have to do something with 
>> 8.04 being a LTS (Long Term Support) release, but don't take my word 
>> for it.
>
> This is pretty standard behavior for all distribution. Their goal is a 
> stable release across a large number of packages that they can 
> maintain for a long while. Sysadmins and IT folks are more concerned 
> with broad based stability and security that with having any one 
> vertical stack that is current/bleeding edge.
>
> This in fact works mostly well for me, in that I don't like having to 
> worry about my OS and infrastructure in general. What I find 
> frustrating is that it is a major pain to get the current/bleeding 
> edge packages for a vertical GIS stack built in an older stable 
> environment as packages that can be deployed easily into a production 
> environment.
>
> In most cases, the production environment does not have compliers and 
> dev libs and headers and such installed. So you have to have a build 
> box with all that stuff. In Debian I have backported some packages in 
> the past, but then Debian changed the packaging tools, which made it 
> really difficult to do the backports at that time. I haven't tried on 
> a more recent versions in a while.
>
> Anyway, I would not hold your breath for this to change.
>
> -Steve W
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