[geos-devel] GEOS 3.0.0 RC3 binary compatibile in all cases?

[Mateusz Loskot]

strk at refractions.net wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:21:53PM -0500, Mike Leahy wrote:
>> Hello List,
>>
>> I hope you don't mind me posting in this development list...my question 
>> just didn't seem belong in the PostGIS list where Paul made the RC3 
>> announcment...
>>
>> What I'd like to know is: does binary compatibility mean that all 
>> applications compiled against 2.2.x should still work?
> 
> Binary compatibility with 2.2.x is only for the C-API, which qgis
> is not using. PostGIS and GDAL are the ones I know are using the C-API.
> Qgis needs to switch, but it seems no developer is finding the time
> for that :(

I'd not say the problem is in finding time.
AFAIK, first the QGIS Team wants to release stable QGIS 0.8 and then go
forward to switch to C API for GEOS.

For those who can't wait, here is my dirty and unofficial
patch for QGIS:

http://mateusz.loskot.net/tmp/qgis-geos-3.0.0-mloskot-20061026.patch

It was made in October, so may be some additional tweaks
will be required but generally it should be easy to re-patch QGIS.

Cheers
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net