3.0.0

3.0.0

Big thanks to TileDB for the effort to enhance the PDAL Python extension to support streaming, composable pipelines, and refactor it to use pybind11. Thanks!

• PDAL plugins (filters.python and readers.numpy) have been moved to their own package at https://github.com/PDAL/python-plugins and https://pypi.org/project/pdal-plugins/
• PDAL extension has been converted to use pybind11 instead of Cython
• Support for composable pipelines. For example, a caller can construct a pipeline and sort it using pure Python such as:
  pipeline = pdal.Reader("1.2-with-color.las") | pdal.Filter.sort(dimension="X")
• Convenient cycling between PDAL and Python Numpy is now possible. See https://github.com/PDAL/python#reading-using-numpy-arrays for details
• Chunked or streamed operations are now possible from Python. See https://github.com/PDAL/python#executing-streamable-pipelines for details
• meshio support https://github.com/PDAL/python#meshio-integration
• pdal.pio has been removed. This is superseded by the composable pipeline support