[gdal-dev] RFC 73 (aka gdalsrsbarn) available for review

[Andrew Bell]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 2:09 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> On jeudi 17 janvier 2019 13:45:27 CET Andrew Bell wrote:
> > What is the logic behind the PROJ symbol renaming?
>
> First, it is purely optional and require active decision of the user to
> build
> PROJ that way. This is only meant to be used by people wanting to mix GDAL
> master + PROJ master + GDAL dependencies built with against old PROJ
> version.
> This is useful in particular for CI purposes where I want to be able to
> pull
> GDAL dependencies built against PROJ 4.9.x.
> This is meant at managing the transition before all the stack is built
> against
> PROJ 6
>

I guess this just sounds like a development/test issue rather than
something that should be exposed for users.

> I remember terrible
> > things about previous symbol renaming efforts.
>
> Really ? Well, they eventually "solved" quite severe issues during the
> libtiff
> 3 -> 4 transition.
>

I remember hitting a GDAL with statically-linked libtiff that had renamed
symbols or some such.  It caused problems.

-- 
Andrew Bell
andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com
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