[Geographiclib-announce] GeographicLib 1.42 (released 2015-04-28)

[Charles K. <cha...@sr...>]

Changes between 1.42 (released 2015-04-28) and 1.41 versions:

   * DMS::Decode allows a single addition or subtraction operation, e.g.,
     70W+0:0:15.  This affects the GeoCoords class and the utilities
     (which use the DMS class for reading coordinates).

   * Add Math::norm, Math::AngRound, Math::tand, Math::atan2d,
     Math::eatanhe, Math::taupf, Math::tauf, Math::fma and remove
     duplicated (but private) functionality from other classes.

   * On non-Windows systems, the cmake config-style find_package files
     are now installed under ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib${LIB_SUFFIX}
     instead of ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share, because the files are
     architecture-specific.  This change will let 32-bit and 64-bit
     versions coexist on the same machine (in lib and lib64).  You should
     remove the versions in the old "share" location.

   * MATLAB changes:
     + provide native MATLAB implementations for compiled interface
       functions;
     + the compiled MATLAB interface is now deprecated and so the
       MATLAB_COMPILER option in the cmake build has been removed;
     + reorganize directories, so that
       o matlab/geographiclib contains the native matlab code;
       o matlab/geographiclib-legacy contains wrapper functions to mimic
         the previous compiled functionality;
     + the installed MATLAB code mirrors this layout, but the parent
       installation directory on non-Windows systems is
       ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share (instead of
       ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/libexec), because the files are now
       architecture independent;
     + matlab/geographiclib is now packaged and distributed as MATLAB
       File Exchange package 50605 (this supersedes three earlier MATLAB
       packages);
     + point fix for geodarea.m to correct bug in area of polygons which
       encircle a pole multiple times (released as version 1.41.1 of
       MATLAB File Exchange package 39108, 2014-04-22).

   * artifactId for Java package changed from GeographicLib to
     GeographicLib-Java and the package is now depolyed to Maven Central
     (thanks to Chris Bennight for help on this).

   * Fix autoconf mismatch of version numbers (which were inconsistent in
     versions 1.40 and 1.41).

   * Mark the computation of the gradient of the geoid height in the
     Geoid class and the <a href="GeoidEval.1.html">GeoidEval</a> utility
     as deprecated.

   * Work around the boost-quadmath bug with setprecision(0).

   * Deprecate use of Visual Studio 2005 "-vc8" project files in the
     windows directory.