[gdal-dev] Starting a discussion on style and coding guidelines

[Andrew Bell]

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

>
> > As for the notion of replacing some allocations with vectors, well,
> great.
> > But the GDAL codebase is creaky in lots of places and to get too
> particular
> > about the advantage/disadvantage of vectors seems a little silly.  At
> some
> > point it's just reasonable to say that you're only going to support
> > compilers/systems made after some date/version.  People who don't want to
> > upgrade a system aren't harmed.  They always have access to an older
> > version of the library.
>
> (Sometimes they want the latest version of the lib for a particular
> feature on a ancient system.)
>

Yes, but I'm unsympathetic.  This is free software.  To make the system
less maintainable for developers often working for free and more difficult
for many other users for the sake of a few outliers is to me unappealing.
If people want a feature integrated into some old system, they can
certainly hire someone to do just that.

-- 
Andrew Bell
andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com
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