[geos-devel] RFC 9: Restore C++ API as public API

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 5/17/19 4:43 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 08:36, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On 5/17/19 3:23 PM, Andrew Bell wrote:
>>> Frequent, breaking API changes seem a problem. ABI changes seem more like a
>>> small annoyance. I can understand how a stable ABI would be nice, but I
>>> personally don't think it's more important than a good interface for
>>> library users.
>>
>> And that's the difference in perspective between a developer and
>> distribution packager.
> 
> It is not my role of a library developer to make packaging easier.
> There are many PMs and PDMs, OS-specific, distro-specific
> as well as number of OS-agnostic ones. It is not a library developer
> role to promise an easy life to maintainers of any of the PMs/PDMs.
> It would be a sisyphean task.

That's not very considerate.

If GEOS becomes too painful to maintain, I'll remove it from Debian to
keep my sanity, and leave it up to users to build it themselves and
integrate it with the other packages.

If that requires the removal of other packages that require GEOS, so be
it. That just reduced the number of packages I have to maintain. It's
not in the best interest of our users, but fuck them too, right?

Kind Regards,

Bas

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