[Ubuntu] GEOS 3.2 not (yet?) in the PPA

Alan Boudreault aboudreault at mapgears.com
Wed Apr 21 07:27:19 EDT 2010


I see that the geos package is named "libgeos-3.2.0", so we could just 
add it in the PPA and recompile postgis against it. I will try to do it 
as soon as possible. I can't say when though.

Thanks,
Alan

Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> The C library should be ABI compatible, the C++ library is not compatible.
> Since geos 3.2 is already available on debian (sid) it should be easy
> to port it to ubuntu.
>
> Johan
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Alan Boudreault
> <aboudreault at mapgears.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Maxime,
>>
>> Since many packages depend on GEOS, my plan is to update the stable PPA and
>> the unstable PPA as soon as Ubuntu 10.04 is released. I assume that geos
>> 3.1.1 and 3.2 are not ABI compatible.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> Maxime Guillaud wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know when GEOS 3.2 will be available from the Ubuntu GIS
>>> PPA ? At the moment, only 3.1.1 is available, contributed by Alan
>>> Boudreault some time ago:
>>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable
>>>
>>> The reason I am asking this is that I am hitting a bug with ST_Union
>>> that is apparently fixed in GEOS 3.2 (according to this bug report
>>> http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ticket/275).
>>>
>>> thanks !
>>> Maxime
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