Return a float between 0 and 1 representing the location of the closest point on the geometry segment to the given point, as a fraction of total segment length.
Parameters
[in]
start,end
Points defining the segment
[in]
point
Reference point
[out]
dist
Distance
Note
This is the previous version of the function that is kept here while recovering the CI tests. This function should be merged with the function pointsegm_locate below