[GRASS-dev] [release planning] 7.4.0

[Moritz Lennert]

Le Sun, 19 Nov 2017 01:41:06 +0200,
Maris Nartiss <maris.gis at gmail.com> a écrit :

> 2017-11-12 19:50 GMT+02:00 Moritz Lennert
> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>:
> > MarkusM is the one who really knows, but AFAIU, the GEOS
> > implementation of buffering is the best we have (or the only one
> > without errors in specific cases). There is not function for
> > creating parallel lines in GEOS, so for that the functions in
> > buffer2.c are the best we have, but they are pretty bad.
> > Apparently, creating a parallel line is not as simple as it would
> > sound, and we are still looking for a correct implementation, or
> > rather to even see if such an implementation is possible.  
> I played around with native buffering (both versions) and they both
> look similarly bad :(
> Thus I made v.profile to hard depend on GEOS buffers (no native
> option) till we manage to fix problems with native buffering.
> Please test if trunk seems to be OK now (I added also a test case
> based on your example).
> r71769 will need a backport if there will be no objections

Thanks a lot, Maris !

I think you can backport, so that it gets as much testing as possible
in the 7.4 release branch before release.

Moritz