[Qgis-developer] Planning for QGIS 1.0.0 '????'

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

>>  - anything else (other than obviously bug fixing)??
>
> I've started porting QGIS to the GEOS C-API this weekend.

Ok I added it to the release checklist too.

>
> QgsGeometry is almost done - except for
> QgsGeometry::splitPolygonGeometry(), where cut edges are queried which
> is currently not supported in the C-API.  I'll propose a patch to add
> that to the C-API.
>
> The WFS provider also uses the GEOS spatial index, that also has no
> C-API.  We also have QgsSpatialIndex, which we could you for that or
> propose another extension.   An other solution would be to add that to
> the GEOS C-API, too.   Opinions?

One thing I wonder about patching GEOS is that in packaging QGIS for
other platforms we are effectively going to be requiring that a very
recent GEOS is present (i.e. one that includes your patches). Is this
going to be an issue and is there an elegant solution to the issue?

Regards


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