All,

2/4/09

I am pleased to announce the release of libLAS 1.0.1. 1.0.1 mostly improves the Python bindings, along with adding a liblas-config script.

• #82: http://liblas.org/ticket/82 Python bindings missing get/set intensity
• #83: http://liblas.org/ticket/83 Support fractional seconds in the Python bindings
• #84: http://liblas.org/ticket/84 Improve LASPoint::equal
• #89: http://liblas.org/ticket/89 Python liblas.version did not work
• #88: http://liblas.org/ticket/88 liblas-config script to provide library/include locations to software wishing to link to libLAS
• #86: http://liblas.org/ticket/86 las2txt M option allowing the index number of the point to be included in the output

See http://liblas.org/query?status=closed&group=resolution&milestone=1.0.1 for more information.

For Windows users, the OSGeo4W packages contains the Python bindings, command-line utilities (including las2ogr), and development packages. Unless you plan to embed libLAS in your own software, you should use OSGeo4W. Also, OSGeo4W provides you with a lot of other goodies like GDAL which you might find quite useful.

For everyone else, there is only the source package. libLAS is a generic GNU autoconf/autotools project, however, and building libLAS is as simple as ./configure;make;make install.

OSGeo4W Release

• http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/osgeo4w-setup.exe

Windows Release

• http://liblas.org/raw-attachment/wiki/1.0.1/liblas-1.0.1-win32.zip
• http://liblas.org/raw-attachment/wiki/1.0.1/liblas-1.0.1-win32.zip.md5

Source Release

• http://liblas.org/raw-attachment/wiki/1.0.1/liblas-1.0.1-src.tar.bz2
• http://liblas.org/raw-attachment/wiki/1.0.1/liblas-1.0.1-src.tar.bz2.md5

Python Release

• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/libLAS/1.0.1

Thanks,

Howard