[Qgis-developer] Re: Proposal: Lift feature freeze for labelling

[Martin Dobias]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> 2008/10/3 Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Incorporating PAL would be probably a good step forward. But I can
>> imagine that we could do that also as an incremental change - although
>> that would mean that we keep the old labeling engine in place.
>>
>
> So the idea would be based on our discussions with them (PAL) tomorrow
> we could see if any API changes are required. If API changes are
> required my proposal would be to do it now before 1.0 release so that
> we can live up to our promise of a stable long supported API. However
> if it looks like it will be feasible to do it with no API changes, my
> feeling would also be to slot it in as a new feature for 1.1.

Other thing for discussion is that PAL is using GEOS C++ API so that
back before qgis geos C API port...

Martin