[GRASS-dev] natural neighbor in G7?

[Moritz Lennert]

On 15/04/14 21:44, Martin Landa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2014-04-14 18:03 GMT+02:00 Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>:
>
> [...]
>
> thanks for your useful comments!
>
>> One additional reflection, though: I don't think that CGAL provides a C-API
>> which, IIUC, would mean that the module would have to be programmed in C++.
>> Somewhat of a showstopper...
>
> Right, such modules would be written in C++. We have already several
> modules written in C++, so I wouldn't call it as a showstopper...

Well these modules are generally not core functionality, and for some 
(e.g. r.terraflow) C-equivalents exist. And IIRC general consenus on 
this list has been to try to avoid C++ code.

But you wrote:

On 08/04/14 14:03, Martin Landa wrote:
 > This
 > would require a new dependency for GRASS. CGAL is very powerful
 > library and could be probably used by other modules in the future.

This would imply a more extensive use of the library and thus more C++ 
modules which would be a move away from current practice (at least in 
the way I have perceived it).

Moritz