Mike,
The significance of the changes is all in your perception and use. If
you happen to hit a geometry bug in 2.2, then 3.0 becomes much more
significant to you.
I'd suggest "going with the flow". Use what you have as default until
such a time as it doesn't do what you want or need.
Paul
On Feb 14, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Mike Leahy wrote:
I'm setting up a new server that in the not-too-distant future will
be used for some live project work. I'm currently running Fedora 8,
and I find that most of the GIS-related utilities we need are
available from the default Fedora repositories. However, the Geos
in the Fedora repositories is still at version 2.2.3. I don't know
how likely that is to change in the near future, but I'm guessing it
might be a while (if at all for Fedora 8) given the number of
dependencies that would also have to be updated (Gdal, Qgis,
MapServer, etc.).
What I'd like to know is whether the improvements in 3.0.0 are
significant enough to make it worthwhile for me to go through the
process of compiling it myself (plus all of the dependant tools).
This isn't too difficult for me to do, but it is time consuming, and
I'd rather rely on binaries complied and tested by those with more
expertise than I have. Alternatively, I can stick with 2.2.3 (and
maybe hope for updates on F8), or consider another distribution that
has Geos 3.0.0 already distributed with it (does anyone know if this
is the case, maybe for CentOS?).
What recommendations would anyone on this list have?
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