Christopher Barker wrote:
> 
> Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>> 1) an external dependency on the GEOS lib (which is LGPL).
> 
> Would it be any better to depend on an existing python binding GEOS? 
> Here's one option:
> 
> http://trac.gispython.org/projects/PCL/wiki/Shapely

That is what Jeff started with, but it uses ctypes, and adds complexity 
to the licensing and the installation.  Therefore he wrote his own pyrex 
binding to the C API of GEOS, which avoids all that and works fine for 
basemap purposes.

Eric

> 
> -Chris
> 
> 


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