[postgis-users] Are there any Ubuntu PPAs that serve PostGIS 2.0 beta releases?

[Charlie Sharpsteen]

On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:32:50 AM UTC-7, Denis Rouzaud wrote:
>
>  You are right, but there notices in 
> http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/postgis_installation.html#id2744974
>
> GEOS geometry library, version 3.2.2 or greater, but GEOS 3.3.2+ is 
> recommended. Without GEOS 3.3, you will be missing some major enhancements 
> with handling of topological exceptions and improvements to geometry 
> validation and making geometries valid such as ST_ValidDetail and 
> ST_MakeValid. GEOS 3.3.2+ is also required for topology support. GEOS is 
> available for download fromhttp://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ <http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/>and 
> 3.3+ is backward-compatible with older versions so fairly safe to upgrade.
>
> GDAL, version 1.6 or higher (1.9 or higher is preferable since some things 
> will not work well with lower versions). This is needed for raster support 
> and will be required in final release of PostGIS 2.0. 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource.
>
> I am no expert, but I am not sure it's good idea to deliver builds of 
> postgis in a sub-optimal config. 
>

Well, a sub-optimal build gets more work done than no build any day of the 
week. Plus, all of this work has to be done eventually---easier to improve 
something than start from scratch.

It does look like a GDAL upgrade to 1.9 would be a good idea though if the 
final version will require it. I have plenty of experience building this 
stuff from maintaining most of the GIS stack for the Homebrew package 
manager on OS X. Entirely new to Debian packaging though, so that will slow 
me down quite a bit.

-Charlie

On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:32:50 AM UTC-7, Denis Rouzaud wrote:
>
>  You are right, but there notices in 
> http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/postgis_installation.html#id2744974
>
> GEOS geometry library, version 3.2.2 or greater, but GEOS 3.3.2+ is 
> recommended. Without GEOS 3.3, you will be missing some major enhancements 
> with handling of topological exceptions and improvements to geometry 
> validation and making geometries valid such as ST_ValidDetail and 
> ST_MakeValid. GEOS 3.3.2+ is also required for topology support. GEOS is 
> available for download fromhttp://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ <http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/>and 
> 3.3+ is backward-compatible with older versions so fairly safe to upgrade.
>
> GDAL, version 1.6 or higher (1.9 or higher is preferable since some things 
> will not work well with lower versions). This is needed for raster support 
> and will be required in final release of PostGIS 2.0. 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource.
>
> I am no expert, but I am not sure it's good idea to deliver builds of 
> postgis in a sub-optimal config.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 03/14/2012 04:29 PM, Charlie Sharpsteen wrote: 
>
> On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:21:48 AM UTC-7, Denis Rouzaud wrote: 
>>
>>  That would be amazing.
>> But, there is no ppa for geos 3.3 either and I am not sure about gdal 
>> 1.9...
>> It might be a little early to have a ppa repo and dependencies with 
>> unavailable packages....
>>
>> My 2 cents.
>>  
>  
> Pretty sure I built PostGIS from source against GDAL 1.7 and GEOS 3.2.2 
> from the Oneiric standard repository.
>
>  Are there any critical functions that are inactive without the latest 
> and greatest versions of these libraries?
>
>  -Charlie 
>
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