+1 from me as well - simpler code is a great outcome and should be a goal these days. I'd also support SWIG 4 although I wonder how widespread it is - especially on enterprise Linux distros.
On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 1:35 PM Seth G <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Even, > > +1 from me - as you write removing those multiple PROJ code paths will > simplify the code base greatly in some places. > Does GEOS have similar issues? There don't seem to be any version checks > in MapServer apart from some comments in the Python MapScript bindings > "Requires GEOS support (>=3.0)". > > I'd also like to propose we only support SWIG 4 and higher, and begin > removing Python2 specific code (I can look at these two items). > > Seth > > -- > web:https://geographika.net & https://mapserverstudio.net > twitter: @geographika > > On Sat, Jun 3, 2023, at 5:15 PM, Even Rouault wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've prepared 2 pull requests > > https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/6900 and > > https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/6901 to respectively drop > > support for PROJ < 6 and GDAL < 3 for MapServer 8.2 > > > > Any opposition to that? > > > > Those older versions haven't been supported anymore and for a long time > > by their respective projects, the proposed minimal versions have been > > released 4 years ago and our CI doesn't test the dropped versions > > anymore, so I believe it is safe to proceed. > > > > The PROJ < 6 drop removes quite a bunch of code paths so it is a nice > > cleanup. The GDAL < 3 has modest impacts, but anyway having PROJ >= 6 > > and GDAL < 3 doesn't make sense as this is a rather unsupported > combination. > > > > Even > > > > -- > > http://www.spatialys.com > > My software is free, but my time generally not. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MapServer-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev > _______________________________________________ > MapServer-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev >
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