[pdal] PDAL Version 2.1 Release

[Howard Butler]

> On Mar 21, 2020, at 1:50 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> Will there also be a new release of the Python package?

Yes, although I'm still having trouble getting the build scenarios of filters.python and readers.numpy correct on all platforms with setup.py. Specifically, Python the combo of static/dynamic linking of Python itself and the use by the embedded plugins. There doesn't seem to be high-level Python distutils support for building "normal shared objects", and so I have had to build a lot of my own. I expect there to be some bugs when I do roll it out.

I was hoping to polish it this next week. The nice thing about the Python stuff being removed, is it can be released at its own pace. That pace is likely to be much faster than PDAL itself going forward.

Howard