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authorClaude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net>2014-03-27 23:02:28 +0100
committerClaude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net>2014-03-29 11:08:52 +0100
commit41903d025a6ea79ccc4cc38a398b1286ef6e1319 (patch)
tree6d6d1fe9d3e75684b08ba85bb68c9c9056c58d54 /docs
parentc5d1df70a415ecbb0e8f00fe76122cb2ed100d53 (diff)
Dropped support for GDAL 1.6
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/geolibs.txt33
-rw-r--r--docs/releases/1.8.txt2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/geolibs.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/geolibs.txt
index 3261e10985..43be449207 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/geolibs.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/geolibs.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Program Description Required
======================== ==================================== ================================ ==========================
:ref:`GEOS <ref-geos>` Geometry Engine Open Source Yes 3.4, 3.3, 3.2
`PROJ.4`_ Cartographic Projections library Yes (PostgreSQL and SQLite only) 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, 4.4
-:ref:`GDAL <ref-gdal>` Geospatial Data Abstraction Library No (but, required for SQLite) 1.9, 1.8, 1.7, 1.6
+:ref:`GDAL <ref-gdal>` Geospatial Data Abstraction Library No (but, required for SQLite) 1.9, 1.8, 1.7
:ref:`GeoIP <ref-geoip>` IP-based geolocation library No 1.4
`PostGIS`__ Spatial extensions for PostgreSQL Yes (PostgreSQL only) 2.0, 1.5, 1.4, 1.3
`SpatiaLite`__ Spatial extensions for SQLite Yes (SQLite only) 4.1, 4.0, 3.0, 2.4, 2.3
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ totally fine with GeoDjango. Your mileage may vary.
GEOS 3.2.0 2009-12-14
GEOS 3.3.0 2011-05-30
GEOS 3.4.0 2013-08-11
- GDAL 1.6.0 2008-12-04
GDAL 1.7.1 2010-02-08
GDAL 1.8.0 2011-01-13
GDAL 1.9.0 2012-01-03
@@ -263,34 +262,6 @@ the GDAL library. For example:
GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH = '/home/sue/local/lib/libgdal.so'
-.. _gdaldata:
-
-Can't find GDAL data files (``GDAL_DATA``)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-When installed from source, GDAL versions 1.5.1 and below have an autoconf bug
-that places data in the wrong location. [#]_ This can lead to error messages
-like this:
-
-.. code-block:: text
-
- ERROR 4: Unable to open EPSG support file gcs.csv.
- ...
- OGRException: OGR failure.
-
-The solution is to set the ``GDAL_DATA`` environment variable to the location of the
-GDAL data files before invoking Python (typically ``/usr/local/share``; use
-``gdal-config --datadir`` to find out). For example::
-
- $ export GDAL_DATA=`gdal-config --datadir`
- $ python manage.py shell
-
-If using Apache, you may need to add this environment variable to your configuration
-file:
-
-.. code-block:: apache
-
- SetEnv GDAL_DATA /usr/local/share
.. rubric:: Footnotes
.. [#] The datum shifting files are needed for converting data to and from
@@ -302,5 +273,3 @@ file:
problem caused by their absence later.
.. [#] Specifically, GeoDjango provides support for the `OGR
<http://gdal.org/ogr>`_ library, a component of GDAL.
-.. [#] See `GDAL ticket #2382 <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2382>`_.
-
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
index bb80660bf2..1f56c3109e 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Miscellaneous
* ``URLField.to_python`` no longer adds a trailing slash to pathless URLs.
-* ``django.contrib.gis`` dropped support for GEOS 3.1.
+* ``django.contrib.gis`` dropped support for GEOS 3.1 and GDAL 1.6.
.. _deprecated-features-1.8: