Re: [DebianGIS] Re: gdal
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 17:27 +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.
Dropping the C++ library might not be too attractive. QGIS uses it
heavily I think, but I'll have to check into that more.
For now, what should the package name be? libgdal1a?
Steve
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