We want a show of hands how many windows users plan to be using PostgreSQL 9.1 and lower with PostGIS 2.1+? Keep in mind that PostGIS 2.1+ requires PostgreSQL 9.0 or above so if you are running 8.4 don't bother raising your hands.
The reason we ask is with PostGIS 2.1+ we are planning to drop installer packaging of PostgreSQL 9.1 and PostgreSQL 9.0. We'll still be providing the 64-bit binaries for PostgreSQL 9.1,9.0 however but plan to retire our old build chain for 32-bit (that supported 32-bit 8.4,9.0,9.1) We are dropping installer packaging for prior versions in PostGIS 2.1 because we'll be shipping pgRouting with 2.1 and PostGIS 2.2 will include pointcloud + pgRouting support for sure and most likely SFCGAL as well. That said -- PostGIS has gotten bigger and the biggest time sink for us is testing installers and versions, especially ones our clients don't use since we can't offset the cost. Keep in mind THIS IS NOT ABOUT PostGIS 2.0. PostGIS 2.0 we'll still be providing installers and micro version upgrades for all PostgreSQL versions we started supporting in those PostGIS minors (e.g. PostGIS 2.0 8.4,9.0,9.1,9.2 users will still get micro releases for 2.0 via stack builder) Thanks, Regina and Leo http://www.postgis.us http://postgis.net http://www.paragoncorporation.com _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
