[geos-devel] RE: [jts-devel] The future of JTS and GEOS

[strk at refractions.net]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:55:01AM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:57:33 +0100, strk at refractions.net
> <strk at refractions.net> wrote:
> > The facilities offered by the C++ language would then be used by inner
> > code alone, or by whoever decide to include "inner" headers giving up
> > stability of interface.
> 
> Strk,
> 
> I think an opaque and simplified C interface would be helpful,
> potentially allowing a variety of back end implementations.  
> However, I am not sure that this is strictly required nor am I 
> convinced it should be used as permission to alter the C++
> interfaces willy-nilly.
> 
> Best regards,

Of course that was not an attempt to deliberately mess with
the C++ interfaces. But it seems pretty hard to me keeping them
as they are if we want to speed things up (see the concrete
CoordinateSequence proposal on jts-devel).

--strk;


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