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

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:49:08AM -0700, Charlie Sharpsteen wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:42:52 AM UTC-7, Stephen V. Mather wrote:
> >
> >  > Pretty slick. I will ponder upgrading GEOS and GDAL and setting up a 
> > stable build for the most recent beta releases.
> >
> > Wow.  That would be awesome.
> 
> GDAL should be pretty simple. The problem with GEOS is that it is pretty 
> far down at the base of the GIS foodchain---so lots of libraries that are 
> used by GDAL also use GEOS and would need to be updated as well. I doubt I 
> will have the time to compile my way through everything between GEOS and 
> GDAL.

It really depends on whether they are using the C++ or C API.
C-API users work just fine with a newer GEOS.

Check out http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/Applications

And ask your preferred application to _stop_ using the C++ API :)

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