[postgis-users] GEOS 3.0.0 RC1 Released

[Tyler Mitchell]

Sounds great!  Thanks for the update - I'm looking forward to trying  
it.  And, thanks to Sandro's presentation this week, I want to also  
get digging into the topology funness :)

Tyler

On 9-Sep-06, at 11:38 AM, Paul Ramsey wrote:

> GEOS 3.0.0 RC1 has been released for your gentle consideration.
>
>   <http://geos.refractions.net>
>
> This release updates the algorithmic basis of GEOS to synchronize  
> with JTS 1.7.  As a result of this update a number of bugs have  
> been removed and some performance increased.  For API-level users  
> of GEOS, a number of new functions are available.
>
> The update to synchronize with JTS was jointly funded by Safe  
> Software and Autodesk.  Many thanks for their contribution to the  
> project!
>
> The release also includes experimental improvements to the  
> robustness of the geometric operators (Union, Difference,  
> SymDifference).  These improvements may be included in a future  
> release of JTS.  If you have been having topology exceptions in  
> your geometry processing, you may find that upgrading to GEOS 3.0.0  
> will remove the vast majority of them.
>
> The robustness improvements have been funded by the Bavarian State  
> Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the
> State Survey of Bavaria.  Many thanks to these organizations and  
> the citizens of Bavaria!
>
> PostGIS users and other applications that use the "C API" can  
> upgrade their GEOS simply by running a "./configure ; make ; make  
> install".  The C API remains binary compatible with earlier  
> versions.  Users of the C++ API may have to recompile their  
> applications as well as GEOS -- the C++ API remains source  
> compatible with earlier versions but may not be binary compatible.
>
>
>
>
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