[postgis-users] PostGIS 1.3.4 RC3 released

[Chris Hermansen]

WRT Ubuntu and GEOS versions, the current version (Intrepid, 8.10) has
finally made the move from 2.2.4 that is in the Hardy 8.04 LTS release
and stands at 3.0.0-5.

I recall many people begging as far back as the GEOS 3 RCs to have them
moved into Ubuntu, maybe that was in 7.x series?   Anyway.

It seems that the 8.04 LTS release will be supported until April 2011,
so I guess in principle that means there will be people hoping for
support on GEOS 2.2 until that time.  Yuck...



Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Obe, Regina wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>>
>> My general opinion about this.  No its not worth the effort unless it
>> takes you 5 minutes and won't break anything and doesn't require further
>> maintenance :).
>>
>> I figure most people upgrading are probably going to upgrade GEOS.   I
>> mean you expect all functions to be available in your install and if
>> they happen to be running a geos that old, I question whether they would
>> be running the new GCC. 
>> Also its annoying to have to say things like hmm by the way you can't
>> use ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology because you don't have GEOS 3.0+.  Too
>> much minutia to remember. 
>
> For people who are reasonably happy compiling code, it's probably not
> so much of an issue. The annoying part is that some LTS distros
> (Ubuntu, I'm looking at you) are still shipping GEOS 2.2 series, even
> though 3.0 had been out nearly a year before the distro shipped. So
> for these people we still need to maintain 2.2 series support IMO.
>
>> Does the old gcc work fine with old 2....?  If so then scrap fixing it
>> for new installs -- you want to stick with old technology stick with old
>> technology across the board period.  If it doesn't then hmm - I would
>> say lets just say to use 1.3.4 you need to have Geos 3.0.3 or above
>> installed.
>
> I wouldn't mind this so much, except for the fact that 1.3.4 contains
> critical memory leak fixes/crash fixes that people really need to have
> in production :(  However, for 1.4 I have no objection to making GEOS
> 3.0 a minimum requirement - this would at least enable us to get rid
> those final compilation warnings. Feel free to put forward a proposal
> on -devel :)
>
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.
>


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