[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60016] libqhull was deprecated in favor of libqhull_r

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #60016 (project octave):

A re-entrant Qhull library is probably of minimal utility for Octave.  And it
would be useful if they would quantify the speed difference between the two
libraries.  The file DEPRECATED.txt says "minimal", but that means different
things to different people.  Does it mean a few milliseconds or does it mean
within 10% of libqhull runtime?

Regardless, we probably need to end up porting the code in case there are bug
fixes which the maintainers of QHull won't bother porting back to the
non-reentrant library.

I believe that Octave uses the 'C' language interface even though the
surrounding code is written in C++.  It would be more of a pain if we also
have to rewrite our code to use the 'C++' API.  It's not quite clear from
DEPRECATED.txt.  We use qh functions, and sometimes the qh macro.  

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