[GRASS-dev] About v.distance, v.what.vect (wrt "count points within...").

[Hamish]

Markus Metz wrote:
> compiles now in 64, but no longer in 65 (stats library
> in 65 is different from 64),

til now we have only really worried about backward-
compatibility at the data and command-line level.
None the less, all attempts should be made to keep the C
API function calls stable. I'm not talking about new
functions here, I'm talking about modified ones.

In the past we used new function calls like G_fn_name2()
when there was a function change within the major version.
(ie for fns already released in a stable branch)

needing patches to build on diff't versions of 6.x is a
clear sign on failure on our behalf.

.. so is statsvalue() a module-private or libgis-public function?  https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/43093
(no prob if it's an internal module fn)


thanks,
Hamish