Spatial not in current 4.1.3 build?

2004-07-06 Thread Barend Köbben 
It seems the Spatial Extension is not in the 4.1.3 binary (for Win)...?
 This is frustating, as I am a GIS/Spatial database developer using until now 
succesfully the earlier alpha in my projects. I am not a programmer and certainly do 
not want to go into building my own binaries. Why this exclusion and why is it not 
mentioned clearly anywhere? I only found out when my SQL queries returend an error 
message that somewhere said 'not in current build' or something similar...

It seems the support/interest for Spatial is low anyhow, which is a shame, because the 
implementation at the moment works fine. With this low interest, it's no wonder most 
GIS people are looking to PostGIS, and myabe so will I, which is a shame because in 
many ways MySQL suits my needs better...

Barend Köbben
International Institute for Geo-information Sciences and  Earth Observation (ITC)
PO Box 6, 7500AA Enschede (The Netherlands)
ph: +31 (0)53 4874253; fax: +31 (0)53 4874335 
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Re: Spatial not in current 4.1.3 build?

2004-07-06 Thread Sergei Golubchik 
Hi!

On Jul 06, Barend K?bben wrote:
 It seems the Spatial Extension is not in the 4.1.3 binary (for Win)...?

You're right :(
Sorry for this.
We recently made GIS features optional, but ON by default.
Unfortunately, this default is the value of ./configure switch and
does not apply to Windows.

You may consider it a bug, and we will correct it ASAP.

The lack of the extensive test suite that works on Windows didn't let us
to notice it before the release (we're porting our test suite to Windows, so
hopefully slips like that will never happen again).

  This is frustating, as I am a GIS/Spatial database developer using
  until now succesfully the earlier alpha in my projects. I am not a
  programmer and certainly do not want to go into building my own
  binaries. Why this exclusion and why is it not mentioned clearly
  anywhere?

It was not intentional.

Regards,
Sergei

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