[geos-devel] RFC6 - Drop GEOS C++ API at GEOS 3.8

[Sandro Santilli]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 08:02:37PM -0700, Kurt Schwehr wrote:
> -1 (non-PSC).  Please do not drop the C++ the C++ API.  Some folks (e.g. me
> at Google) statically link GEOS and ABI compatibility is not an issue.

Is your @Google project on the GEOS Applications page ?
https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/Applications
If not, could you add it ?

> Every build is a complete system.  Working with C APIs is far harder.  We
> end up having to wrap a C++ API back over C APIs.

I've been thinking for some time that we could do actually do this in
GEOS directly: a thin C++ wrapper around the C APIs. Sounds like a fun
crazy thing to do...

--strk;