<div dir="ltr"><div>Andrew,</div><div><br></div>I don't think any ship has sailed -- 3.13 will not be released for several months.<div><br></div><div>Is there a situation where the change to client code is more involved than changing "char**" to "CSLConstList" ?</div><div><br></div><div>Dan</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://github.com/rspatial/terra/pull/2026/changes">https://github.com/rspatial/terra/pull/2026/changes</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/pull/2583/changes">https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/pull/2583/changes</a></div><div>[3] <a href="https://github.com/firelab/gdalraster/pull/868/changes">https://github.com/firelab/gdalraster/pull/868/changes</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 2:58 PM Andrew Bell via gdal-dev <<a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi,<br><br>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.<br><br>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.</div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Andrew Bell</div><a href="mailto:andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com</a></div></div></div>
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