- MeshHalfedges: function for taking region into account was confusing,

with an implicit conversion to bool. Created another overload to
disambiguate.
- Preparing Release 1.8.4

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
 cmake_policy(SET CMP0048 NEW)
 
 ##############################################################################
-set(VORPALINE_VERSION_RC TRUE)
+set(VORPALINE_VERSION_RC FALSE)
 set(VORPALINE_VERSION_MAJOR 1)
 set(VORPALINE_VERSION_MINOR 8)
 set(VORPALINE_VERSION_PATCH 4)

src/lib/geogram/mesh/mesh_halfedges.h

@@ -179,6 +179,17 @@ namespace GEO {
 	    facet_region_.bind(mesh_.facets.attributes(),attribute_name);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * \brief Sets a facet attribute name that determines borders.
+	 * \param[in] attribute_name the name of the facet attribute to
+	 *  be used to determine borders.
+         * \details Needed to have this overload, because const char*
+         *  is implicitly converted to bool instead of std::string.
+	 */
+        void set_use_facet_region(const char* attribute_name) {
+            set_use_facet_region(std::string(attribute_name));
+        }
+
 
         /**
          * \brief Tests whether a Halfedge is valid.