<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Folks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">At one time we were very sensitive to the exact version of SWIG so providing pre-generated bindings removed a large class of versioning problems.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I am ok with removing them. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Best regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Frank</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 3:14 PM Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> To play devil's advocate, were there any (perceived) benefits to this<br>
> arrangement when originally introduced, other than not needing the<br>
> SWIG binary to compile Python bindings?<br>
<br>
That predates the start of my involvement with GDAL, so my guess would <br>
be that this was just what you mention: for the sake of simplicity of <br>
people building GDAL, at a time where its only build requirement was the <br>
basic tools autoconf, make and g++. Nowadays, getting SWIG isn't harder <br>
than getting PROJ or any of the "optional" dependencies you generally <br>
want to make a reasonably feature complete GDAL build.<br>
<br>
Even<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="monospace">---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------<br>I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, <a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com" target="_blank">warmerdam@pobox.com</a><br>light and sound - activate the windows | +1 650-701-7823<br>and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Software Developer</font></div></div></div></div></div>