<div dir="ltr">Something to consider is writing an interface that wraps the old code. Modern generic approaches make this easy.<div><br></div><div>Perhaps evaluate the Generic Image Library and Boost Geometry as candidates?</div>
<div><br></div><div>THK</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Even Rouault <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:even.rouault@mines-paris.org" target="_blank">even.rouault@mines-paris.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dmitriy,<br>
<br>
It is not at all my intention to have a big-bang for GDAL 2.0. According to the<br>
ohloh estimation ( <a href="http://www.ohloh.net/p/gdal/estimated_cost" target="_blank">http://www.ohloh.net/p/gdal/estimated_cost</a> ), the cumulated<br>
development to make GDAL as it is currently would represent a 265 person-years<br>
effort. I do think it is overestimated (they also include the external libraries<br>
that have been imported in the tree like libtiff, etc..); it should be closer to<br>
30 person-years (2 full time position for the 15 years the project exist) but<br>
still... I don't think anything justifies a rewrite.<br>
My vision is more a series of incremental changes where the software remains<br>
stable and usable at each stage. That way you, we can make sure that GDAL 2.0<br>
can be released some day...<br>
<br>
Even<br>
<br>
> Hi Etienne,<br>
><br>
> Yes, on first stage some format will be dropped. But exist GDAL 1.x will<br>
> help where.<br>
> It seems to me that rewriting of formats will not so hard as develop new<br>
> one.<br>
> NetCDF is popular form and should be rewrite in first stage. We can<br>
> create a wiki page with table of format and stages and responsibility -<br>
> so we see how the work will be hard.<br>
><br>
> Best regards,<br>
> Dmitry<br>
><br>
><br>
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