Re: [gdal-dev] Policy for C/C++ API for GDAL 2.0 ?

[Ivan Lucena]

Frank,

>  My brief thoughts are:
>  
>  * My objectives for GDAL/OGR 2.0 primarily revolve around
>  restructuring OGR to be close alignment with the GDAL API.  That means
>  moving to a unified driver model, and GDAL style creation option and
>  capabilities mechanisms.  I want to end up with a GDALDataset that can
>  have vector layers as well as bands.
>  . . .
>  * I hadn't considered big changes in the utilities myself but if ever
>  it was to be done now would be the time.

By integrating GDAL/OGR drivers into GDALDataset, I would imagine that we are going to be able to do things like 
using *gdalinfo* on a shapefile, for example. That could represent some changes in command line utilities.

Regards,

Ivan