[gdal-dev] shapelib 1.5.0 release

Sean Gillies sean at mapbox.com
Thu Feb 28 08:20:57 PST 2019


Hi Even,

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 9:14 AM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> (CC'ing gdal-dev as well, since shapelib at lists.osgeo.org has likely lower
> audience)
>
> I've released shapelib 1.5.0
>
> The main change is the removal of the 'shpproj' contrib utility and thus
> PROJ
> dependency.
>
> The tarballs are available at:
> http://download.osgeo.org/shapelib/shapelib-1.5.0.tar.gz
> http://download.osgeo.org/shapelib/shapelib-1.5.0.zip
>
> The log of changes since 1.4.1 is:
>
> 2019-02-28  Even Rouault  <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
>
>         * shpopen.c: resync with GDAL internal shapelib to avoid being
> dependent
>         on correctness of file size field in .shp. Fixes
>
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2018-October/049218.html
>
> 2019-02-28  Even Rouault  <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
>
>         * contrib/shpgeo.h/.c: Remove PROJ.4 dependency and functionality,
>          causing removal of SHPProject(), SHPSetProjection() and
> SHPFreeProjection()
>         * contrib/shpproj.c: removed


If you remove methods and a utility, would it be better to call this
shapelib 2.0?

-- 
Sean Gillies
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