[postgis-devel] Win32 crashes with PostGIS 1.1.4 / PostgreSQL 8.2 -- solved

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, Strk,

strk at refractions.net wrote:

>> What do you think about the attached formulation for HOWTO_RELEASE?
> 
> No attachment... ?

Oh, sorry, I forgot it. :-(

It's attached now. (I hope. :-)

>> Btw, AFAICS the loader/dumper currently don't include that version info
>> altogether, they only contain the SVN version. Should we add a UTIL_* here?
> 
> loader/dumper show RCSId when called w/out args, that'd help.

Yes, that's what I meant with "contain the SVN version".

But it won't change the uers confusion between PostGIS release numbers,
and SVN versions I mentioned below.

>> It might make sense to change Version.config to contain only the
>> REL_*_VERSION variables, and use them everywhere. There's a low risk
>> that we'll have users upgrade more parts then necessary, e. G. if the
>> loader and the jdbc don't change in a minor release. But as we won't
>> have independent releases of those subprojects, we confuse users even
>> more when we release a PostGIS 1.1.9 that contains a jdbc_1.1.8.jar and
>> a shp2gpsql version 4711.
> 
> Yes, I've been thinknig about this too. Sounds much easier :)

So I'll create those changes soon after the next minor release.

> BTW, I see no critical fixes advertised in the CHANGES file, what did I miss ?

So, I'm afraid that Mark either forgot to mention the fixes in the
CHANGES file, or forgot to commit altogether. He announces the Win32
fixes in
http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-devel/2006-October/002284.html
which you kinda acknowledged in
http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-devel/2006-October/002285.html

HTH,
Markus


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How to release
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  Date: 2006-09-27

Versioning Scheme
-----------------

Release version is composed by REL_MAJOR_VERSION, REL_MINOR_VERSION
and REL_MICRO_VERSION components. "REL" here matches SO for the server
side of PostGIS, and JDBC for the java side.

By default only [REL_MICRO_VERSION] increments between releases.

[REL_MINOR_VERSION] is incremented (and MICRO set to 0) when minor
additions have been introduced (one or two functions can be considered
*micro* additions)

[REL_MAJOR_VERSION] is incremented (and MICRO and MINOR set to 0) when
a dump/reload of existing spatial databases is *REQUIRED* for things
to work or rather *HIGHLY RECOMMENDED* to get new functionalities.

Release procedure
-----------------

1) Update Version.config as specified in Versioning Scheme above.
2) Edit CHANGES: set release date and check all notable changes are
   been reported.
3) Add release notes in doc/postgis.xml
4) Tag the release:
   $ base=http://svn.refractions.net/postgis/
   $ rel=MAJ.MIN.MIC
   $ svn copy -m "Tagged release $rel" $base/trunk $base/tags/$rel
5) Run: sh make_dist.sh MAJ.MIN.MIC
6) Publish
7) Announce