[PROJ] Closing in on PROJ 7 release date

Greg Troxel gdt at lexort.com
Mon Jan 13 08:17:38 PST 2020


Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> writes:

>> 3. ... and possibly RFC4-related changes regarding grid management (not
>> sure about this one yet)
>
> None at the API level. There has just been removal of 2 esoteric 
> functionality: the undocumented +catalog and the ancient & no longer used 
> CTable format.
> Depending on the outcome of the discussion I've opened on using
> proj-datumgrid-geotiff, there might be changes in how dependencies to grid 
> packages are expressed (doesn't impact API)

That all sounds fine.  My concern is really

  Given some random package P that uses proj, if I update from 5 to 6,
  or from 6 to 7, does P build (without touching it) or does it build
  with "#define ENABLE_DEPRECATED_FOO", or do I have to mark it broken
  in the packaging system.


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