[geos-devel] GEOS-3.6.0 released

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2016-10-25 4:47 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 10/25/2016 09:43 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> On 2016-10-25 4:23 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>>> On 10/25/2016 06:07 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>>>>   - C++ API changes:
>>>>     - Automatic memory management for GeometryFactory objects
>>>
>>> This change seems to cause the build failures for OSSIM, osmium &
>>> osm2pgsql with GEOS 3.6.0. All three builds fail with these errors:
>>>
>>>  'geos::geom::GeometryFactory::GeometryFactory()' is protected within
>>> this context
>>>  'virtual geos::geom::GeometryFactory::~GeometryFactory()' is protected
>>> within this context
>>>
>>> What is the proper way to support GeometryFactory for both GEOS 3.5.0
>>> and 3.6.0?
>>>
>>
>> Bas I was also confused (as a packager) seeing these 2 releases come
>> out, and not sure how all of the many other projects handle the 3.6.0
>> changes (like GDAL, MapServer, PostGIS etc.).  So I'm assuming that
>> packagers like us Bas are to use 3.5.1 for now?
>
> 3.5.1 seems to be the safer choice for now, although I haven't tested
> the reverse dependencies with that yet (still working through all of
> them with 3.6.0).
>

Ok thanks Bas, that is very helpful.

-jeff



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