postgis-legacy removal

[René Ladan]

2014/1/17 Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it>:
> Hello.
>
> Today I found database/postgis (previously at version 1.5.3) was removed:
> this is no surprise, since the port was deprecated long ago.
>
> However, there's PR/174764 with a patch to upgrade it to 1.5.8, so I'm
> wondering: was removing this really the best option?

I use a tool ports/Tools/scripts/rmport to remove expired ports which checks the
PR database when removing a port but somehow this PR did not show up.

If I understand correctly, it executes 'query-pr -qx -y databases
postgis' on freefall
and this does not include closed PRs.

> Also consider 2.x is not source code compatible: application written for 1.x
> need rewriting.
>
One port, graphics/tinyows, depended on this and has been updated to work with
postgis21.  But that does indeed exclude software not in the Ports Tree.

Regards,
René