[Gdal-dev] Changes in the Perl bindings API (should not break anything)

[Ari Jolma]

I've improved the Perl bindings API a bit. Mainly I've tried to remove 
all needs to use the constants like $Geo::GDAL::Const::wkbPoint and use 
strings instead. Nothing should have been broken, it's just a thin new 
layer I've added.

I've created some new constructors with the name of create. I'll use a 
new name since I don't know how to feasibly replace the "new" 
constructors Swig creates. For example, geometries can be created now 
like this:

$geom = Geo::OGR::Geometry->create('Point');

I've also updated the documentation of the Perl bindings and marked as 
"deprecated" those methods that I think shouldn't be used. The 
documentation is written in Doxygen and it is a bit difficult to 
produce, I've set up nightly (around 1 am Finnish time - the latest 
should be there soon) production of them here: 
http://map.hut.fi/doc/Geo-GDAL/html/index.html

There's still much to do, for example add code to keep parent objects 
live when their variables go out of scope and children still exist; code 
that would ease the transfer of data from Perl to GDAL and vice versa; 
documentation; etc. Comments and help are welcome.

Ari

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Prof. Ari Jolma
Geoinformaatio- ja paikannustekniikka / Geoinformation and positioning
Teknillinen Korkeakoulu / Helsinki University of Technology
tel: +358 9 451 3886 address: POBox 1200, 02015 TKK, Finland
Email: ari.jolma at tkk.fi URL: http://www.tkk.fi/~jolma