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[Jan Hartmann]

Why don't you write a small stub C++ library on top of C-PROJ, just to 
enable this sort of calls?

Jan

On 4-1-2010 12:44, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com wrote:
> here is my patch so far.
>
> I can understand the desire to keep things simple. I would have never
> even bothered to compile this at all if I did not have problems. My
> problem was the usage of radians that is dependant on the combination
> of projections. This is something that could be hidden by the
> templates and done automatically. It is done in cs2cs but not in the
> api.
>
> My idea about the templates is very simple, to be able to create a
> single function
>
> newcood= f<fromproj,toproj>(coord)
>
> it would not need any initialization of the projections, but the
> projections would be selected via templates. That would allow for a
> very fast usage.
>
> mike
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Jan Hartmann<j.l.h.hartmann at uva.nl>  wrote:
>    
>> I would prefer to keep the code of the library itself as standard-C like as
>> possible. It is scientific programming, could be done just as well in
>> Fortran (preferably not, of course :-)). On the other hand, what someone
>> does on top of this library (e.g. building user interfaces in Fortran),
>> should be doable in any other language.
>>
>> Jan
>>
>> On 4-1-2010 12:27, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com wrote:
>>      
>>> Yes,
>>> Of course. My plan was to test this and submit it to the main branch.
>>> In fact, I would not have published this at all, but was having
>>> problems and wanted help. Now I have resolved the issues and this
>>> branch is not needed any more.
>>>
>>> This is just a working snapshot.
>>> Ideally there more work to do with c++ and proj.
>>> Like to move the configuration of the projections to templates..
>>>
>>>
>>> mike
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Jan Hartmann<j.l.h.hartmann at uva.nl>
>>>   wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> If it is just a patch to make the source code c++ compliant, IMHO it
>>>> belongs
>>>> in the main branch. Useful for indepentdent C++ projects that would like
>>>> to
>>>> link in the PROJ4 library.
>>>>
>>>> Jan
>>>>
>>>> On 4-1-2010 12:10, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> It does not do anything more at the moment.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is just compiling with c++, you can apply the patch if you like.
>>>>>
>>>>> mike
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Jan Hartmann<j.l.h.hartmann at uva.nl>
>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>>>> On 4-1-2010 8:47, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              
>>>>>>> In addition, I have started a c++ branch of proj4, and have resolved
>>>>>>> some compile problems.
>>>>>>> Feel free to check it out
>>>>>>> http://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/ProjC--/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> mike
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                
>>>>>> Just curious, what does this branch do that the main tree doesn' t?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              
>>>>
>>>>          
>>