/topic changed /cc geos-devel On 30 September 2017 at 20:47, Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > Mateusz Loskot <mate...@loskot.net> writes: > >>> There isn't agreement about whether it is a bug for packages to use the >>> GEOS C++ API. If it really is a bug, GEOS is buggy for installing the >>> headers. >> >> Please, can we stop this heresy? >> I'm tired of explaining GEOS C++ API status. > > So do you agree with this, taken from the geos README (in 3.6.2): > > ### Using the C++ interface (discouraged) > > NB: The C++ interface should not be used directly; the GEOS project > views it as a bug for another program to use the C++ interface or even > to directly link against the C++ library. > [...] > > Or do you think something else?
Greg, No, I don't agree with this. Moreover, this paragraph has no rights to be there or in any official GEOS writing. I'm very surprised Sandro allowed it in - I assume a merge in rush. It sneaked in (unnoticed) via [1] as follow-up to this thread [2] on geos-devel which had not received any response declaring C++ API as deprecated or even no response that uses word 'deprecate'. Sandro clearly stated, C++ API users are warned [3]. Five years later, I answered the same question [4]: "GEOS C++ API is not an internal API, but a public yet supported API offered by GEOS." and Sandro, as the project leader, had not arrived with any corrections. Finally, even if GEOS C++ API was/is marked as deprecated, then I ask where is the RFC, where is the PSC voting the motion, where is the public announcement? > It genuinely seems to me that there are multiple opinions out there. It is not a matter of an opinion, but a fact. [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ticket/553 [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geos-devel/2017-January/007652.html [3] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geos-devel/2012-June/005861.html [4] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geos-devel/2017-January/007653.html Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net _______________________________________________ geos-devel mailing list geos-devel@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel
