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

[Markus Metz]

Hamish wrote:
> 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.
>
FYI, the change in question happened 11 months ago, on Sep 4th 2009,
in lib/stats. IOW, this is not an internal module fn, it's a grass
library fn, a change that should have been backported months ago.
There have been a number of changes to existing fn calls within minor
versions in grass6 (grass 6.0.0 was released around March 2005 which
is some time ago...)

Markus M