[Gdal-dev] Radical OGR Update

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:41:15AM +0100, Alessandro Amici wrote:
> 
> Frank,
> 
> On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:39, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I am suffering from a growing compulsion to make a substantial update to
> > OGR before a GDAL 1.2.0 release.  In particular I would like to make some
> > movement to unifying GDAL and OGR in the following ways:
> >
> 
> argh!
> 
> what about a rapid 1.2.0 (with it's own cvs branch for fixes) and then start a 
> big restructure marked 2.0.0?
> 
> there are so many new features and fixes in current cvs that many applications 
> would benefit now. and the only non-backward compatible change for 
> applications is the -lgdal.1.1 -> -lgdal transition (easily handled using 
> 'gdal-config --libs'). 
> 
> and next you can concentrate on big API changes thus bumping the major version 
> number seems needed anyhow.
> 
> just my two cents,

Frank, please make a release before changing the API.

GRASS 5.7's import/export depends highly on OGR (but the current OGR-CVS,
due to the SHAPE bugfix and many more bugfixes and feature enhancements).

Same thing with r.in.gdal which affects both GRASS 5.3 and 5.7.

Since most distributions such a Mandrake, Debian etc accept only
official releases, we have to explain regularly to the GRASS users to
upgrade and use GDAL/OGR from CVS (which is not a good idea for 
average users...).

The GRASS community would appreciate a new release before doing major
changes (1.1.10 ?).

Just my 0.02 Euro

 Markus