[ckan-dev] ckanext-spatial and pycsw versions

Sat Mar 22 10:32:33 UTC 2014

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