Re: [DebianGIS] Re: gdal
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 05:27:23PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Frank Warmerdam]
> > Petter,
> >
> > Well, I won't dictate policy for the debian packaging, but it is
> > my position that applications not wanting to be tightly bound to
> > GDAL should use the C API.
>
> I'm making the decisions for gdal in debian, but can only give
> recommendations. If the C++ API isn't stable as Frank explains here,
> it might be better to separate it out in a separate library package,
> and rename the package on every release, or drop the C++ library from
> the library API.
>
> For the mapserver package in Debian, I choose to _not_ make a library
> package after being explained by the authors that the library API was
> still in flux, and they had no immediate plans to keep the API fixed.
> See #327853 for this history so far.
>
This is the best thing to do in this conditons, folks.
Let keep C and C++ parts stay own their own. Patching debian sources
to independently add a soname change for every new release would not
be a good thing...
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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