[geos-devel] RFC6 - Discourage use of C++ API by requiring a configure switch to install the c++ headers and SDK

[Robert Coup]

Hi Bas,

On 5 October 2017 at 07:02, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>
wrote:

> On 10/05/2017 12:34 AM, Robert Coup wrote:
> > Alternative is to work with on C++ APIs/ABIs and compatibility with the
> > distros and make it clear that having 7 versions of GEOS installed is
> > completely normal. And woe betide if there's a security problem with the
> > WKB parser that affects them all. But that's a huge amount of effort to
> go
> > to for something the project has recommended against since forever...
>
> That may be fine for fink, but having more than one version of a library
> is not acceptable for Debian and neither is it for EPEL AFAIK. So the
> above is not going to happen in the most popular Linux distributions.
>

Trying to understand this a bit deeper - it's possible to have 2x GDALs
installed. eg. libgdal1h and libgdal20 will live side by side (though
python-gdal/gdal-bin clash), but you're saying a particular release
(xenial/jessie) will only ever have 1x GDAL package in it?

Thanks

Rob :)
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