[geos-devel] [GEOS] #1015: Update geos-config tool for consistency

Paul Ramsey pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
Tue Feb 18 10:58:09 PST 2020


Pkg config is wonderous but still far from universal 

> On Feb 18, 2020, at 10:14 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
> 
> Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> writes:
> 
>> Yeah, and with Apple changing the default shell in OSX, this only gets worse not better over time… 
>> Could follow the pgsql project and just rewrite the thing (the config program) in C and be done with it…
> 
> Or, perhaps generate a pkgconfig file and just get rid of geos-config?
> There is some one-time pain, but it seems that hand-written foo-config
> is no longer the preferred approach.


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