<div dir="ltr">Hi Bas,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 October 2017 at 07:02, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastic@xs4all.nl" target="_blank">sebastic@xs4all.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 10/05/2017 12:34 AM, Robert Coup wrote:<br>
> Alternative is to work with on C++ APIs/ABIs and compatibility with the<br>
> distros and make it clear that having 7 versions of GEOS installed is<br>
> completely normal. And woe betide if there's a security problem with the<br>
> WKB parser that affects them all. But that's a huge amount of effort to go<br>
> to for something the project has recommended against since forever...<br>
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</span>That may be fine for fink, but having more than one version of a library<br>
is not acceptable for Debian and neither is it for EPEL AFAIK. So the<br>
above is not going to happen in the most popular Linux distributions.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Trying to understand this a bit deeper - it's possible to have 2x GDALs installed. eg. libgdal1h and libgdal20 will live side by side (though python-gdal/gdal-bin clash), but you're saying a particular release (xenial/jessie) will only ever have 1x GDAL package in it?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Rob :)</div></div>
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