[PROJ] PROJ 7.1.1RC1

Sebastiaan Couwenberg sebastic at xs4all.nl
Wed Aug 26 11:15:50 PDT 2020


On 8/26/20 8:09 PM, Kristian Evers wrote:
>>> Personally I feel it somewhat
>>> violates the semantic versioning dogma by adding new functionality and not
>>> just fixing bugs in an existing release.
>>  
>> Yes, but updating the EPSG database with new releases can also be considered as adding new functionality, and we've done that in the past.
> 
> Yes, it is a bit of gray area. I am honestly not sure what is the best approach. It is probably not that important, I can’t recall anyone questioning the way we do this.

It's probably fine as long as there is no risk of regressions in
dependent projects.

It would be somewhat unacceptable if e.g. pyproj or gdal fail to build
due to a PROJ patch release.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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