[Liblas-devel] LAS 1.2 and libLAS 1.2

[Mateusz Loskot]

Howard Butler wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have received a commitment to fund the development of LAS 1.2 
> read/write support.

Hobu,

This is a great news!

> Part of this effort will also include beefing up 
> the libgeotiff proj.4 translation functionality (it is currently quite 
> limited). I don't have much control over libgeotiff's release process, 
> but hopefully we can get that refreshed once the work is complete as 
> well.  I hope to have a beta release of libLAS with LAS 1.2 support by 
> the end of the month.

Crossing my fingers and waiting for that to test :-)

> I propose that we also call the release "libLAS 
> 1.2" to hopefully eliminate confusion with the various 1.x LAS 
> specifications to imply that libLAS does it all.  Version numbers are 
> cheap anyway ;)

I support your idea - the less confusion the better.

> I think we do have enough for an interim 1.0.1 release that fixes a few 
> tickets, mostly related to the Python bindings 
> <http://liblas.org/query?status=closed&group=resolution&milestone=1.0.1>.  
> I will prepare this release in the next few days.

Yes, sounds good.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org