[geos-devel] missing header

strk strk at keybit.net
Tue Sep 29 09:41:03 EDT 2009


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 03:33:06PM +0200, Christoph Dohmen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm quite new to geos, but I found a header missing in my installation :-(
> The DouglasPeuckerLineSimplifier is described in the online doc but the
> DouglasPeuckerLineSimplifier.h include file is listed under noinst_HEADERS
> in the Makefile.in.
> Is this an error? Or, if not, why is this header not installed?

It's a long story. In short the dev team was trying hard to keep
users away of the C++ interface. You should really use the C one...

Anyway in 3.2.0 (and current trunk) we won't care anymore and let users
free to hurt themselves.

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