Gregory Williamson wrote:
+1
Given that there is going to have to be pain eventually to make this
code base more coherent / maintainable, I think what you outline is
sensible. 7.4 is going to be sunsetted "soonish" anyway and supporting
it seems to be less than sensible; 8.0 we here at my company skipped
because it just seemed to have issues and the later releases have given
more bang for the non-buck ;-) . The decision on Windoze support seems
quite in line w/ PostgreSQL in general.
I'd rather see a freeze on new features and some work done to make the
long-term prospects better than see developers increasingly spin their
wheels trying to maintain old code bases. Take advantage of newer
features in postgres where possible since they've done work for a
reason. But what a refreshing idea to be able to contemplate going back
and fixing old issues and cleaning up things instead of pasting new
functionality onto increasingly rickety infrastructure!
A caveat -- all in favor of a tighter coupling of postGIS and GEOS but
do make this as painless as possible for neophytes and others who are
not masters of their own environments, either from lack of experience or
from being dependent on arbitrary sysads. (i wish for several moons)
Well, in terms of building PostGIS, nothing should change to the casual
user. The standard incantation of "configure" followed by "make install"
still stands, although of course the relevant libraries and header files
must be installed if building from source.
I can't offer much personally -- a little geld [hundreds of US dollars
-- act now before this offer becomes meaningless!] if you need it, some
perl experience [not a wizard mind you!] and maybe some help testing.
"Corporate" I do not speak for but my guess is that they're more willing
to pony up money for specific features that are needed rather than
general under-the-hood work. But I think this sounds like a good idea
and well worth doing sooner rather than later. So let me know if I can help.
Since Perl is not my first language, I'd personally be grateful for any
help with regard to converting the regression test script to Perl. See
http://svn.refractions.net/postgis/trunk/regress/run_test for the shell
version. Much of the new build system has already been committed to SVN
trunk, so feel free to download, test and feedback.
In terms of new features, several people have recently been asking about
multi-dimensional indices. If enough interested parties could donate
some money for developer time, I'm sure this would help fund the
developers required to do the work.
ATB,
Mark.
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Mark Cave-Ayland
Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts
http://www.siriusit.co.uk
T: +44 870 608 0063
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