[Proj] Compiling Proj 5.2.0

Even Rouault even.rouault at spatialys.com
Mon Sep 17 23:27:58 PDT 2018


On mardi 18 septembre 2018 08:17:02 CEST Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 3:59 AM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:
> > There have been some very vocal mailing list members who have complained
> > vociferously about the people doing the development of PROJ not doing the
> > things that they want. C99 compatibility in perpetuity has an opportunity
> > cost. Those who wish to preserve C99 compatibility for PROJ for all of
> > Even's WKT efforts did not step forward to take the work on. Those who
> > can only use C99 can continue to use the older versions of the software.
> > If we need to open some maintenance branches to preserve their continued
> > patches and improvements of those branches, they can start making pull
> > requests against the relevant release tags.
> Just to be sure:
> 
> Do you mean that there will not be a C interface to the new PROJ? Or
> you are meaning that PROJ itself will be c++11, but with a C API for
> client programs to use. I am guessing/hoping the later.

Was discussed in
http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/proj/2018-May/008214.html
and related thread

Even

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