[Proj] PROJ 4.8.0 Release Candidate 1

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>
> My experience trying to update pkgsrc with this:
>
> * datumgrid 1.5 doesn't have a .tar.gz, only zip.
>
> For no good reason, it's awkward in pkgsrc to have a package built from
> distfiles with different prefixes.  So I'm using datumgrid 1.4 still.
> Since that's not part of proj proper, it shouldn't affect 'make check'.
>
> * test failure
>
> Rel. 4.8.0, 6 March 2012
> <cs2cs>: while processing file: <stdin>, line 4
> pj_transform(): failed to load datum shift file
> diff td_out with td_out.dist
> 18,25c18,25
> < -5.5 52.0     *       * 0.000000000000
> < -5.5000000000001 52.0000000000001     *       * 0.000000000000
> < -5.4999 51.9999       *       * 0.000000000000
> < -5.5001 52.0  *       * 0.000000000000
> < -5.5 52.0     *       * 0.000000000000
> < -5.5000000000001 52.0000000000001     *       * 0.000000000000
> < -5.4999 51.9999       *       * 0.000000000000
> < -5.5001 52.0  *       * 0.000000000000
> ---
>> -5.5 52.0     -5.501106465528 51.999890470284 0.000000000000
>> -5.5000000000001 52.0000000000001     -5.501106465529 51.999890470284 0.000000000000
>> -5.4999 51.9999       -5.501006458305 51.999790470257 0.000000000000
>> -5.5001 52.0  -5.500100000000 52.000000000000 0.000000000000
>> -5.5 52.0     -5.498893534472 52.000109529716 0.000000000000
>> -5.5000000000001 52.0000000000001     -5.498893534472 52.000109529717 0.000000000000
>> -5.4999 51.9999       -5.498793541695 52.000009529743 0.000000000000
>> -5.5001 52.0  -5.500100000000 52.000000000000 0.000000000000
>
> PROBLEMS HAVE OCCURED
> test file td_out saved

I'm presuming the above failure is related to using the wrong set
of datum files.  The test suite is unfortunately not as flexible as I
would like if not provided provided with the datum shift files.

> * missing files
>
> not a problem, but please confirm that:
>
>  nad2nad is no more
>  nad_list.h and projects.h is withdrawn

nad2nad is no more. I see nad_list.h still exists - I'm not too clear
on what it is/was for, and I don't believe it should be installed or used.
If you file a ticket I'll try to cleanup nad_list.h.

projects.h continues to exist, but we are avoiding installing it.  It
is treated as a private interface now.

> Neither are listed in NEWS.

Ahem, yes, the removal of nad2nad should have been noted.
Also the step to not treat projects.h as a public include file.

> Also, the addition of proj.pc probably merits inclusion in NEWS.

Well, perhaps we can agree to disagree on how important the addition
of proj.pc is.  I do try to keep NEWS to major items. ChangeLog is for
all the details.  (IMHO)

Best regards,
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