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

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Chris Hermansen wrote:

> Maybe (probably) I wasn't clear enough here.  I'm running Ubuntu 8.04. 
> The current versions in the repositories are:
> 
> PostGIS 1.3.3
> Proj 4.6.0
> Geos 2.2.3
> PostgreSQL 8.3.1 (there's an 8.2 there as well)
> 
> I'm sad to see that a newer version of GEOS didn't make it to 8.04.  I
> boldly assume that this is an easily-understood slip-up on the part of
> the upstream folk that could have been averted had PostGIS refused to
> build against (or at least complained about) Geos 2.2.x

I'd say this is more of an error of the part of the Ubuntu packagers - 
GEOS 3 had previously been at RC stage for nearly a year, and the final 
release was back in December last year. In fact, it appears that the 
Ubuntu packagers even went as far as making PostGIS an exception to the 
feature freeze because of its importance: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgis/+bug/205179.

Other than basic human error, the only thing I can think of is that 
another package somewhere in the GIS application bundle supplied with 
Hardy Heron still depends on GEOS 2.2.x series.


ATB,

Mark.

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