[geos-devel] [postgis-devel] RFC6 - Require explicit configure to use the C++ API

[Kurt Schwehr]

I don't consider it a waste of time.  Thank you for taking the time for the
RFC and especially for the summary.

On Oct 3, 2017 12:44 PM, "Regina Obe" <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

> After much heated argument on this mailing list and PostGIS IRC, none of
> the other PSC members seem interested in changing GEOS at all.
>
> Hobu booed, strk didn't want to say anything, mloskot booed, pramsey was
> silent.
>
> Dale and Keith ironically seemed to be the most agreeable folks using GEOS.
>
> Hobu and Mloskot feel strongly that  GEOS C++ API is a major feature of
> GEOS and the key feature and if packagers feel strongly against allowing
> C++ API GEOS projects in the packages,
> they should stop shipping the libgeos++-dev so users trying to use those
> will not be able to compile said projects against  a packaged GEOS.
>
> I have marked the RFC as failed so it's there, we know we officially
> discussed it,  and officially shot it down.
>
> https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/RFC6
>
> Sorry for this waste of everyone's time,
>
> Regina
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sandro Santilli
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 2:32 PM
> To: GEOS Development List <geos-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [geos-devel] [postgis-devel] RFC6 - Drop GEOS C++ API at GEOS
> 3.8
>
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 10:33:51AM -0400, Regina Obe wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to get rid of the shared C++ library and just have a C
> library or is that what you were talking about with the static  C++ library.
>
> That's what I'm talking about with the static-only C++ library.
> The C library would then _include_ (statically link to) the
> C++ library.
>
> I'm not sure about the consequences of that though (guess we'd need more
> symbols hiding or it could still be possible for different versions of the
> embedded C++ library to be confused during code execution).
>
> --strk;
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