Mark, My general opinion about this. No its not worth the effort unless it takes you 5 minutes and won't break anything and doesn't require further maintenance :).
I figure most people upgrading are probably going to upgrade GEOS. I mean you expect all functions to be available in your install and if they happen to be running a geos that old, I question whether they would be running the new GCC. Also its annoying to have to say things like hmm by the way you can't use ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology because you don't have GEOS 3.0+. Too much minutia to remember. Does the old gcc work fine with old 2....? If so then scrap fixing it for new installs -- you want to stick with old technology stick with old technology across the board period. If it doesn't then hmm - I would say lets just say to use 1.3.4 you need to have Geos 3.0.3 or above installed. Thanks, Regina -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Cave-Ayland Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:15 AM To: PostGIS Users Discussion Subject: Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS 1.3.4 RC3 released Obe, Regina wrote: > Mark, > > Does this count toward your goal or were you looking more for 8.1? > > I installed a fresh PostgreSQL 8.3.5, Geos 3.0.3 RC1, PostGIS 1.3.4SVN > on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and it passed all regression tests and I > was able to reload my data back. Hmm on hindsight, I guess I should > have also tested on the old 8.2 install that was on that box before I > blew it away, but I was short on time. > > Thanks, > Regina Yep that looks fine. The hardest one for me to test at the moment is GEOS 2.2 since the 2.2 branch doesn't have any of the gcc-4.3 fixes :( I think I can hack up something based upon the patches in SVN trunk, but it would be fairly unmaintainable unless they get added to SVN. I wonder if it's worth putting out a 2.2.4 release containing just compilation fixes? ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users ----------------------------------------- The substance of this message, including any attachments, may be confidential, legally privileged and/or exempt from disclosure pursuant to Massachusetts law. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
