[gdal-dev] Breaking API Change

Andrew Bell andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 11:57:42 PST 2026


Hi,

It looks like a bunch of API functions have changed from returning char**
to CSLConstList. This may break existing user code as the const conversion
will be disallowed by many compilers.

I get that returning const lists may be seen to be better than the old way,
but it seems like the ship has sailed WRT the API. Perhaps this deserves
some discussion.

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