[Xastir-dev] Proj4 projects.h removed in 4.8

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 15 May 2012, Tom Russo wrote:

> A lot of the stuff in projects.h was apparently considered "private" and
> the project has rudely stopped installing projects.h even though no warning
> was given that it was deprecated (a friendlier way to do this would be to have
> at least one release where including projects.h would have spit out a warning).
> One of the things Xastir uses was one of those things in projects.h that
> is considered "private", a structure definition.  This is a reasonable thing
> to make private, as the internal details of the structure should not be
> exposed to the world, and access to the internals should be provided by an
> API (so that the structure can be changed as needed without requiring
> all code that uses the library to be fixed).
>
> Fortunately, Xastir only used a pointer to that type of structure to pass
> to various pj_ calls, and the API provides a typedef for a pointer of that
> sort.

Nice.  When I coded that bit up I couldn't do it without using the "private" header.  Either they changed the public API or you're better at it.  Or both.  ;-)

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