Laravel 11

[limenet]

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[pelmered]

Hello @limenet.
Thanks for taking over this package!
How much do you have left to support Laravel 11? This is currently the only thing holding us back from upgrading.
Is there anything I can do to help?

[limenet]

@pelmered appreciate your kind words and your offer.

While working on the upgrade, I realized there's a lot of work needed as this package relies on the now-removed Doctrine DBAL. There are also changes to the spatial types which I don't fully understand yet. And lastly, since the package was mostly "upgraded" to newer Laravel versions by bumping composer.json, some of the code (e.g. getting it to a decent PHPStan level) and CI needs some attention, too.

As casting support has become a lot stronger over the years, this feels like the direction I'd like to go and while doing some research I found https://github.com/MatanYadaev/laravel-eloquent-spatial which fit my use case for one project really well and migration was painless.

That being said, I yet have to upgrade another project to Laravel 11 (and that project is the main reason I started working on this project) so I might still resurrect the pull request.

What do you think, does https://github.com/MatanYadaev/laravel-eloquent-spatial fit your bill, too, or would you rather continue using this package?

[pelmered]

Yes, I did some research as well and MatanYadaev/laravel-eloquent-spatial has been on my radar for a while since the grimzy package seemed to be abandoned.

It also seems like Laravel gets a lot more support for spatial columns out of the box with Laravel 11. See this pull request for example. In some use cases you probably don't need a third party package anymore. This and MatanYadaev's package adds some more functionality that I think I need. I will try a migration and see how that works out.