On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 2:09 PM Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> wrote:
> On jeudi 17 janvier 2019 13:45:27 CET Andrew Bell wrote: > > What is the logic behind the PROJ symbol renaming? > > First, it is purely optional and require active decision of the user to > build > PROJ that way. This is only meant to be used by people wanting to mix GDAL > master + PROJ master + GDAL dependencies built with against old PROJ > version. > This is useful in particular for CI purposes where I want to be able to > pull > GDAL dependencies built against PROJ 4.9.x. > This is meant at managing the transition before all the stack is built > against > PROJ 6 > I guess this just sounds like a development/test issue rather than something that should be exposed for users. > I remember terrible > > things about previous symbol renaming efforts. > > Really ? Well, they eventually "solved" quite severe issues during the > libtiff > 3 -> 4 transition. > I remember hitting a GDAL with statically-linked libtiff that had renamed symbols or some such. It caused problems. -- Andrew Bell andrew.bell...@gmail.com
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