Thanks to Preston Timmons for the bulk of the work on the patch, especially
updating Django's own test suite to comply with the requirements of the new
runner. Thanks also to Jannis Leidel and Mahdi Yusuf for earlier work on the
patch and the discovery runner.
Refs #11077, #17032, and #18670.
* Geometries now allow list-like manipulation, e.g., can add, insert, delete vertexes (or other geometries in collections) like Python lists. Thanks, Aryeh Leib Taurog.
* Added support for GEOS prepared geometries via `prepared` property. Prepared geometries significantly speed up certain operations.
* Added support for GEOS cascaded union as `MultiPolygon.cascaded_union` property.
* Added support for GEOS line merge as `merged` property on `LineString`, and `MultiLineString` geometries. Thanks, Paul Smith.
* No longer use the deprecated C API for serialization to/from WKB and WKT. Now use the GEOS I/O classes, which are now exposed as `WKTReader`, `WKTWriter`, `WKBReader`, and `WKBWriter` (which supports 3D and SRID inclusion)
* Moved each type of geometry to their own module, eliminating the cluttered `geometries.py`.
* Internally, all C API methods are explicitly called from a module rather than a star import.
Fixed#9557, #9877, #10222
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@10131 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
Tim Graham
Claude Paroz
Carl Meyer
Justin Bronn