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

[Chris Hermansen]

Hi Mark;

If you look at 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geos/+bug/139689 you will see 
I suggested a GEOS upgrade back last fall - before 7.10 was released.  
By the time the triage happened, I guess the Hardy decisions had been 
made.  Unfortunately the clamour that reversed the decision on PostGIS 
didn't pick up on GEOS as well.

Which gets back to my original comment - too bad PostGIS 1.3.3 builds 
against GEOS 2.2.x :-)

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> 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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