[Liblas-devel] liblas updates

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 11 July 2012 19:03, Howard Butler <hobu.inc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Merged.

Thanks.

> We should probably have a liblas release soon. I never really finished up
> the release before and things kind of flatlined.  Is there anyone willing to
> take on maintenance of libLAS to make this happen? Luca?

I can't volunteer at the moment.

> I would also note that for Python users looking to work with LAS data, a
> colleague and I (well, mostly Grant) have been working on a new library at
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/laspy and
> http://laspy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html  laspy is pure native
> python, and it speaks LAS 1.3/1.4 along with the ability to play really
> nicely with numpy, scipy, and friends.  While obviously not as fast as
> liblas (which itself is not near as fast as Martin's LASlib is now), it's
> close enough for many thing, and its convenience and ease of use make up for
> the processing speed in many instances.

Shall we deprecate libLAS then?
It looks we have lost the tickets history, the website and docs may
need updates, so perhaps it's not worth a hassle to maintain it any longer?

AFAIU, PDAL has/will have LAS driver so it's going to take over the
existing user base.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net