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

[Howard Butler]

On Dec 15, 2006, at 1:09 AM, 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 :(

MapServer and Python Cartographic Library also use the C API.

Howard