WRT Ubuntu and GEOS versions, the current version (Intrepid, 8.10) has finally made the move from 2.2.4 that is in the Hardy 8.04 LTS release and stands at 3.0.0-5.
I recall many people begging as far back as the GEOS 3 RCs to have them moved into Ubuntu, maybe that was in 7.x series? Anyway. It seems that the 8.04 LTS release will be supported until April 2011, so I guess in principle that means there will be people hoping for support on GEOS 2.2 until that time. Yuck... Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Obe, Regina wrote: > >> 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. > > For people who are reasonably happy compiling code, it's probably not > so much of an issue. The annoying part is that some LTS distros > (Ubuntu, I'm looking at you) are still shipping GEOS 2.2 series, even > though 3.0 had been out nearly a year before the distro shipped. So > for these people we still need to maintain 2.2 series support IMO. > >> 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. > > I wouldn't mind this so much, except for the fact that 1.3.4 contains > critical memory leak fixes/crash fixes that people really need to have > in production :( However, for 1.4 I have no objection to making GEOS > 3.0 a minimum requirement - this would at least enable us to get rid > those final compilation warnings. Feel free to put forward a proposal > on -devel :) > > > ATB, > > Mark. > -- Regards, Chris Hermansen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel+1.604.714.2878 · fax+1.604.733.0631 · mob+1.778.232.0644 Timberline Natural Resource Group · http://www.timberline.ca 401 · 958 West 8th Avenue · Vancouver BC · Canada · V5Z 1E5 _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
