[gdal-dev] Migrate to GDAL v2 or not?

[Paul Meems]

Thanks Even for the quick reply.

We like bleeding edge technology ;) So we'll be using GDAL v2.
If we stumble on something I'll post it on this list.

Thanks,

Paul

*Paul Meems *
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and forum moderator of MapWindow GIS.
www.mapwindow.org

Owner of MapWindow.nl - Support for
Dutch speaking users.
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2014-09-29 21:00 GMT+02:00 Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>:

> Paul,
>
> It is difficult to answer on your behalf. If you need new features of GDAL
> 2,
> then it is pretty obvious. Otherwise it depends on if you are confortable
> with
> using a "non vetted" development version (but whose quality you can assess
> by
> running the autotest suite), because you want to do progressive adoption
> (it
> is not excluded that there will be extra interface changes before GDAL 2),
> or
> want to stick with something with a more official label. But we definitely
> need
> early adopters to make it a memorable release.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Even
>
> > We, at the MapWinGIS project, have been using GDAL for years and since
> last
> > year we're using Tamas his pre-build binaries.
> > We're now in the middle of upgrading from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual
> > Studio 2013 and wonder if this is also a good moment to upgrade from GDAl
> > v1.11 to GDAL v2.
> > We already recompiled using GDAL v2 and it seems we have only a few
> issues
> > which seems to be easily fixed.
> > We won't release a new version of MapWinGIS within a few months, probably
> > around X-Mas.
> >
> > What is recommended?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > *Paul Meems *
> > Release manager, configuration manager
> > and forum moderator of MapWindow GIS.
> > www.mapwindow.org
> >
> > Owner of MapWindow.nl - Support for
> > Dutch speaking users.
> > www.mapwindow.nl
> >
> >
> >
> > *The English presentations of the MapWindow GIS Conference 2014 are
> online.
> > <http://www.slideshare.net/mapwindow>*
>
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