#POSTGIS IRC Log - 2008-08-10

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11:04:22 darkblue_B: mloskot - any word on cascaded union in GEOS?
11:06:38 mloskot: darkblue_B: I've not heard
11:06:43 mloskot: you need to catch pramsey
11:06:55 darkblue_B: ok, I sent him an email
11:07:02 mloskot: ok
11:07:10 darkblue_B: I think Martin David may live in Berkeley now !
11:07:18 darkblue_B: in which case I'd like to meet him
11:07:22 darkblue_B: Davis
11:07:43 mloskot: darkblue_B: I don't think so, Martin and Paul are from Victoria, BC
11:07:49 darkblue_B: hmmm
11:08:06 darkblue_B: ok, well lots of M Davis in the world
11:08:16 darkblue_B: thx
11:08:36 mloskot: :- )
15:24:23 phosphor_08: anyone know of a good postgis vmware image?
15:27:42 darkblue_B: hey phosphor_08
15:27:58 darkblue_B: install elusive, eh?
15:37:33 phosphor_08: yeah
15:38:45 phosphor_08: think i've gotten it installed on my local machine, MacOS 10.5.4, but not on the server side
15:39:40 phosphor_08: it'd be great if there were some virtual images floating around
15:40:54 phosphor_08: seems like the recommended OS is Debian?
16:40:04 darkblue_B: phosphor_08: I use Debian/Ubuntu.. had good luck with it
16:40:25 darkblue_B: just upgraded to Pg 8.3/PostGIS 1.3.3 last week
16:40:44 darkblue_B: worked fine.. though I admit I have been through it a few times now
22:28:55 simgislab: hi, whom can I talk to about documentation? We've finished translating it and there are a couple of questions I'd like to ask about.
22:35:22 mleslie: Ask away, though I expect most people that could help will be asleep.
22:41:47 simgislab: we've translated docs for 1.3.3, and looking into updating it, but don't know though how to get a list of changes or something like that
22:43:01 mleslie: Do you mean a list of feature changes between 1.3.3 and some other version, or a list of changes to the doc xml?
22:43:52 simgislab: docs
22:46:09 mloskot: simgislab: do you use SVN?
22:47:10 mloskot: simgislab: IMO, the best option is to use SVN and compare doc subdirectory between tags
22:47:12 mloskot: http://svn.refractions.net/postgis/tags/
22:47:13 sigq: Title: Revision 2915: /tags ( at svn.refractions.net )
22:47:15 simgislab: a little bit, did find a link to it on the website
22:47:41 mleslie: Something like this seems to work: svn diff http://svn.refractions.net/postgis/branches/1.3/doc http://svn.refractions.net/postgis/tags/1.3.3/doc
22:47:42 sigq: Title: Revision 2915: /branches/1.3/doc ( at svn.refractions.net )
22:47:52 simgislab: ah, I see
22:48:43 simgislab: mloskot: sounds good, I was thinking about something like that!
22:49:05 mloskot: simgislab: if you are not experienced with SVN you will have to read about branch/tag and diff in the SVN book
22:49:05 mloskot: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
22:49:08 sigq: Title: Version Control with Subversion ( at svnbook.red-bean.com )
22:50:37 simgislab: mloskot: got it, so as I understand, we shouldn't update to 1.4 ( on the web ) until it is released, right?
22:51:19 mloskot: simgislab: I'm not sure what's the exact strategy in postgis ( i'm not directly involved in PostGIS project, but GEOS )
22:51:30 mloskot: though, I suppose the web follows stable release
22:52:05 simgislab: mloskot: ok, just didn't want to update it twice
22:52:54 simgislab: and there is no 1.4 under link you gave, as I can see
22:54:06 mloskot: 1.4 = current trunk
22:54:19 mloskot: trunk = main development branch
22:54:40 mloskot: http://svn.refractions.net/postgis/trunk/
22:54:41 sigq: Title: Revision 2915: /trunk ( at svn.refractions.net )
22:55:03 mloskot: simgislab: you need to check the svn book to understand what is tag, branch and trunk :- )
22:57:08 simgislab: mloskot: sorry, I will, no experience in svn, trying to help translating and learning all other stuff along the way
22:57:56 mloskot: no need to sorry, I'm just suggestion IMO best way to maintain updates of docs, sources, etc.
22:58:17 mloskot: you can also download old and new directories
22:58:26 mloskot: and then run diff -R command to compare directories
22:58:40 mloskot: and you will see what's updated
22:59:04 mloskot: dir -R olddoc newdoc > update.diff
22:59:23 mloskot: and then investigate update.diff file
22:59:33 mloskot: This is another option that does not rely on svn
23:01:22 simgislab: mloskot: I'll try that, thanks