Re: [geos-devel] Geos 2.2.3 vs. 3.0.0

2008-02-14 Thread Mike Leahy
Paul, Thanks for the response. Going with the flow is certainly preferable, but I'd rather avoid bugs down the road if I can. After looking at the bug tracker, it looks like there are quite a few major/critical bugs that were fixed in 3.0. Is it only those bugs with 2.2.x specified as the

Re: [geos-devel] Geos 2.2.3 vs. 3.0.0

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Ramsey
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. P

Re: [geos-devel] Geos 2.2.3 vs. 3.0.0

2008-02-14 Thread Kevin Weller
Mike, If Fedora 8 doesn't have it, then I'm pretty sure CentOS won't either, as it's repackaged from Red Hat, which is in turn behind Fedora Core in terms of available packages. In fact, I have access to a CentOS server and can't find *any* version of GEOS via default yum listing. I had

[geos-devel] Geos 2.2.3 vs. 3.0.0

2008-02-14 Thread Mike Leahy
Hello List, 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 r