[Liblas-devel] Preparing for a 1.0 release

M S mseibel at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 11:42:46 EDT 2008


That is fantastic.  Great tie-in to OGR also!  Huge thanks to everyone who
made this possible.  What a great tool.

Mark

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Howard Butler <hobu.inc at gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> I just recently completed geotiff key writing support for libLAS, and I
> think we are very close to issuing a 1.0 release candidate.  This email is a
> final query to see if anyone has identified any outstanding issues that they
> would like to see resolved before making a release candidate.
>
> Here's a short list of stuff that's been done since 0.9.7:
>
> - proper endianness support for big and little endian machines
> - las2ogr is now available when libLAS is linked to GDAL
> - geotiff key writing from proj.4 strings with the latest CVS libgeotiff
> - VLR summary info is printed when lasinfo is issued
> - las2las respects the --verbose switch
> - las2las was using an incorrect system id http://liblas.org/ticket/56
> - exit() calls in the utilities were normalized to behave similarly
> http://liblas.org/ticket/55
> - The C API no longer uses void* for the opaque handles for more
> compile-time type safety http://liblas.org/ticket/59
> - stack corruption bug in las2las http://liblas.org/ticket/57
>
> I notice there are some of the C++ unit tests and Python unit tests failing
> due to the geotiff key support that I will fix before the release.  I look
> forward to hearing of any experiences you have with the library and if you
> see any final thing that needs to be done before kicking 1.0 out the door.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Howard
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