[Liblas-devel] libLAS status, maintenance and clean-up

[Howard Butler]

> On Aug 20, 2015, at 8:48 AM, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there anyone who is trying/willing to maintain libLAS these days?

I did push a new release of mostly bug fixes last year. It has not been actively maintained in quite a while, however. See https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/pdal/2015-August/000665.html for a description of why you should use PDAL if you can :)

> Which repo/branch is the 'active' one?

master

> What is status of Python bindings?

Use laspy http://laspy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ it is feature complete, doesn't require linkage to the libLAS C API, works on most Python runtimes, and has LAS 1.4 support.

> What is status of C# bindings?

defunct

> Where is the last known as working source of those bindings hosted?

unknown

> What is purpose of the libLAS-CLR?

I think it was an attempt at .NET bindings for libLAS

> 
> I'd like to collect some current information and update the README
> files accordingly.
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Mateusz  Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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