[geos-devel] opBuffer.h et al

Sandro Santilli strk at kbt.io
Fri Feb 15 11:14:30 PST 2019


On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 01:57:12PM -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:

> In include/geos there's a bunch of what look like "utility headers",
> for example https://github.com/libgeos/geos/blob/master/include/geos/opBuffer.h
> 
> They don't seem to get much/any use in the GEOS code base itself. Does
> anyone know why they were added and to help whom? I can see that in
> theory they might define a "public C++ API" but in practice they are
> probably code rotten right now.

They were added to reduce includes in C++ tester script
(example.cpp?). Feel free to drop them as long as the test
script still compiles, and let C++ users scream (they should
be using the C-API anyway...)

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