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1.0-14  2024-01-14
    *   minor change to error messages

1.0-13  2023-06-13
    *   update Rtools43 flags (Windows only)

1.0-12  2022-11-30
    *   switch UCRT Windows flags to use PROJ6 API

1.0-11  2022-01-31
    *   improve detection of correct flags using pkg-config where
        available including static versions. Unless --enable-proj6
        is used it will use proj4 API if avaiable.

    *   add support for UCRT Windows builds

1.0-10.1 (CRAN NMU, Brian Ripley)
    *   force C++ in configure tests

1.0-10  2020-03-03
    *   remove dead links from the documentation

1.0-9   2020-03-02
    *   update proj4 to support PROJ5 and PROJ6. Given all the issues
        with the new PROJ6 API we try to use PROJ4 API wherever
        possible. It is, however, possible to force the use of PROJ6
        API even if PROJ4 is available by specifying --enable-proj6
        configure flag. This should be only used with caution as it
        may have adverse effects on the projection results.

        When PROJ6 API is used, we are applying a heuristic
        in ptransform() to try to detect whether degrees are expected
        by PROJ6 instead of radians previously and will convert
        coordinates automatically to preserve the PROJ4 behavior.

    *   use NAMESPACE C symbol registration

    *   2x2 input in project() was ambiguous, it is now defined
        that columns are taken as x and y. Note that previously
        rows were taken which is unintuitive and could lead to bugs
        that are hard to detect.

1.0-8   2012-08-04
    *   remove Windows binaries from the source package, respect
        LOCAL_SOFT environment variable to use local copy,
        otherwise fetch Windows binaries from RForge.net

1.0-7   2011-12-10
    *   use R's CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS for testing in configure,
        addressing issues on systems with non-default proj4
        location which is known by R.

1.0-6   2011-01-31
    *   Update bundled PROJ.4 library for Windows to 4.7.0 and
        include both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries
        (there is no change to the package itself)

1.0-5   2011-01-16
    *   fixed a minor typo in the docs

    *   changed license specification from verbatim form to
        a form that R likes better

1.0-4   2007-06-08
    *   add ellps.default to project() (PROJ4.5.0 always requires an
        ellipsoid or datum)

    *   fix examples to work with PROJ4.5.0

1.0-3   2007-06-06
    *   add Windows support

1.0-2
    *   update documentation

    *   add support for datum transformation via ptransform()

1.0-1
    *   add a namespace

    *   allow projection parameters to be specified in a more flexible
        way including a named vector c(proj=`utm',zone=15), a
        list list(proj=`utm',zone=15) and an unnamed arguments
        vector c('+proj=utm','+zone=15').

1.0-0
    *   initial version (an intereface to pj_fwd and pj_inv)

Note for Windows: This package contains a static proj4.7.0 binary for
Windows. The NAD files are expected to be installed in c:\proj