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authorsnowman2 <alansnow21@gmail.com>2019-04-01 19:43:14 -0500
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added documentation for the priority of searcing for PROJ resource files
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in other locations as well, amongst those are the users home directory,
``/usr/share/proj`` and the current folder.
+ You can also set the location of the resource files using
+ :func:`proj_context_set_search_paths` in the `proj.h` API header.
+
+.. versionchanged:: 6.1.0
+
+ Starting with PROJ version 6.1.0, the paths set by
+ :func:`proj_context_set_search_paths` will have priority over the
+ :envvar:`PROJ_LIB` to allow for mutliple versions of PROJ
+ resource files on your system without conflicting.
+
.. envvar:: PROJ_DEBUG
Set the debug level of PROJ. The default debug level is zero, which results