From 0afe51de23f0b05eb6dee71a8ac639a630375c0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Regina Obe Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:06:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Cleanup of required versions and link to new page that lists pre-packaged distros for various OS git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@10191 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee --- doc/installation.xml | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/installation.xml b/doc/installation.xml index 4420a2a3c..7e283fc6f 100644 --- a/doc/installation.xml +++ b/doc/installation.xml @@ -99,12 +99,12 @@ you do a make comments or make topology_comments.sql - GEOS geometry library, version 3.2.2 or greater, but GEOS 3.3.2+ is recommended. Without GEOS 3.3, - you will be missing some major enhancements with handling of topological exceptions and improvements to geometry validation and + GEOS geometry library, version 3.3 or greater, but GEOS 3.4+ is recommended to take full advantage of all the new functions and features. Without GEOS 3.4, + you will be missing some major enhancements such as ST_Triangles and long-running function interruption, and improvements to geometry validation and making geometries valid such as ST_ValidDetail and ST_MakeValid. GEOS 3.3.2+ is also required for topology support. GEOS is available for download from http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ - and 3.3+ is backward-compatible with older versions so fairly safe to upgrade. + and 3.4+ is backward-compatible with older versions so fairly safe to upgrade. @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ you do a make comments or make topology_comments.sql - GTK (requires GTK+2.0) to compile the shp2pgsql-gui shape file loader. + GTK (requires GTK+2.0, 2.8+) to compile the shp2pgsql-gui shape file loader. http://www.gtk.org/ @@ -248,7 +248,8 @@ tar -xvzf postgis-&last_release_version;.tar.gz bleeding edge versions or you are a package maintainer. This section includes general compilation instructions, if you are compiling for Windows etc - or another OS, you may find additional more detailed help at PostGIS User contributed compile/install guides and PostGIS Dev Wiki. + or another OS, you may find additional more detailed help at PostGIS User contributed compile guides and PostGIS Dev Wiki. + Pre-Built Packages for various OS are listed in PostGIS Pre-built Packages If you are a windows user, you can get stable builds via Stackbuilder or PostGIS Windows download site We also have very bleeding-edge windows experimental builds that are built usually once or twice a week or whenever anything exciting happens. You can use these to experiment with the in progress releases of PostGIS -- 2.40.0