[gdal-dev] Bindings

[Ari Jolma]

Hi,

I've been trying to find a way to make the common SWIG interface files 
less concerned about languages and the whole system more flexible and 
understandable (which I see a prerequisite for further developments).

My conclusion seems to be now that it is probably better to make the 
main files, what are now gdal.i, ogr.i etc., language specific and only 
the class files, now ColorTable.i, MajorObject.i, etc., and some other 
files (typedefs.i etc.) common. That way each language could compose the 
module as they like. For example in Perl I would like to get rid of 
Const, and a language could put all classes into one module (gdal) etc.

This would at least require extracting remaining common material in 
gdal.i and ogr.i into new files.

I'll test this in my github fork - which I've mentioned a couple of 
times already. But it will probably take some time due to summer etc.

Any comments on this? This is again just internal reorganization and 
does not affect the APIs.

Ari