[Liblas-devel] Why las2ogr based on OGR C API?

[Mateusz Loskot]

On May 16, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Howard Butler wrote:
> On May 16, 2008, at 8:21 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hobu, why have you decided to move las2ogr to C API?
>> Honestly, I've intentionally implemented it using OGR C++ API, so I  
>> named it with .cpp. I am aware of better C API stability but still  
>> I'd like to keep this one in C++ fasion.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> It was including OGR private headers <ogr_p.h> causing it to not  
> compile when --with-gdal was specified.  OGR's C++ API is kind of a  
> mess when it comes to installation and I think most folks who use  
> the OGR C++ API do static linking.

OK, the linking reason makes sense to me.
So, let's move to C API.

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