[Gdal-dev] Radical OGR Update

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:53:22PM +0100, Alessandro Amici wrote:
> 
> Markus,
> 
> [snip very good arguments that i obviously second :) ]
> 
> > The GRASS community would appreciate a new release before doing major
> > changes (1.1.10 ?).
> 
> please, the version number really needs to be (at least) 1.2.0, since linking 
> with gdal is _not_ backward compatible and you can't just bump the patch 
> level.
 
Right.

> as a regular user i'd be really p*ssed off if a library update from version 
> x.y.z to x.y.z+1 would break all related apps, and some will not even build 
> from source any more!

That's why we need a release :-) Then we could point people to an official
package... Later we'll have to modify v.[in|out].ogr (mhh, so we should
make a GRASS 5.7 release as well ...).

> does the grass build system cope with the -lgdal.1.1 -> -lgdal stuff? i guess 
> so, it is not hard, but we already had people reporting failed builds of 
> third party applications :(.

Yes, I think so, it works fine on Redhat 7/9, Mandrake 9.1, Debian 
(for me/our group).

Markus