[Proj] Why?

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Mon Oct 27 13:47:32 EDT 2008


Gerald I. Evenden wrote:
> Lastly, to reemphasize my reason for using gsl is that the gsl procedures 
> involved do a better job and are more robust than simple application of 
> Newton-Raphson.  Secondly, there is the ability to find inverses of 
> projections where practical determination of derivatives is impossible.

Gerald,

As long as use of the GPL licensed gsl is optional at build time (at the
cost of somewhat reduced functionality) I see no problem with this.

Best regards,
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