[ckan-dev] ckanext-spatial and pycsw versions

Wed Apr 9 11:38:59 UTC 2014

Thanks Adrià.  PR submitted: https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-spatial/pull/68

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> The docs were written at the time that pycsw 1.8.0 wasn't still
> around, hence the wording. I'm happy to move the requirement up to
> pycsw 1.8.0, as ckanext-spatial already requires OWSlib 0.8.6 which
> sometimes causes compatibility problems.
>
> As for pycsw not being part of the pip-requirements.txt file I think
> is fine, as I wouldn't expect most ckanext-spatial users to use it,
> and may save some library compatibility problems to them, but have no
> strong opinions on it.
>
> Adrià
>
> On 22 March 2014 10:32, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all: the docs at
>> http://docs.ckan.org/projects/ckanext-spatial/en/latest/csw.html
>> mention 1.6.1 as the minimum requirement.  Having said this, the docs
>> also say:
>>
>> """If you get errors similar to this one, this is caused by
>> limitations on the pycsw model definition. This should be fixed in
>> future versions of pycsw:
>>
>> ERROR: not inserted f8d48eaf-780b-40b8-a502-7a903fde5b1c Error:ERROR:
>> value too long for type character varying(256)"""
>>
>> This has been fixed in pycsw 1.8.0 [1] and a user mentioned that we
>> should update the docs to reflect this, as they ran into this exact
>> issue using pycsw 1.6.1, and upgrading pycsw to 1.8.0 fixed things.
>>
>> Should we update the docs to say the minimum requirement is 1.8.0? Or
>> keep 1.6.1 and explicitly say this has been fixed in 1.8.0?  I would
>> vote for moving to 1.8.0 as the minimum requirement, but am open to
>> other options.
>>
>> FYI pycsw is not part of the pip-requirements.txt install, yet is
>> installed manually via git.
>>
>> I'll prepare a PR based on the results of this discussion.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> ..Tom
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/issues/179
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