[Gdal-dev] GDAL maintenance biweekly report - No. 3

[Mateusz Loskot]

Hi,

Here is the 3rd bi-weekly report, it includes only ~6 of 10
work days and the rest of time I was traveling a bit.

== Resolved issues ==

#738 It seems OGR uses reference counting inconsistently,
     what result in memory leak
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/738

#755 minixml - can't read complex DOCTYPE elements
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/755

#1412 Schema names are not quoted by OGR tools (ogrinfo/ogr2ogr) when
      using PostGIS as datasource
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1412

#1497 Use EnhancedPrecisionOp? for difference and intersection
      operations
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1497

#1534 OGR GML reader fails if file has UTF-8 BOM prefix
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1534

#1537 ogr_sql: FID not usable in WHERE clause
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1534

#1539 Setup Nightly Snapshots
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1534

#1556 Missing recent CPLString improvements in branches/1.4
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1556

#1566 Proposal of gdalsplit utility
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1566

#1572 PG incorrectly recognizes layers from non-default schema
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1572

== Analysed and discussed issues ==

#770 Specify proj4text in spatial_ref_sys table of PostGIS
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/770

#952 Array bounds error
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/952

#976 Wrong OGR2OGR conversion
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/976

#1442 Feature.GetFieldAsInteger? does not behave correctly
      on non existant field
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1442

#1507 GDALRasterIO crashes for width values higher than 2048
      with LZW enabled
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1507

== Other activities ==

* Updated tests:
  * minixml.py
  * ogr_sql.py
  * ogr_gml.py
  * fast.py
  * hfa.py

* Configured autotest package under Windows with Visual C++ 8.0 builds
and native Python binaries

* Testing beta and stable versions of 1.4.1 release

* Around 60 e-mails to the gdal-dev and around 20 off-list with
support to users

* A few hours on the #gdal channel

* Prepared GDAL binaries on request from Windows users

* New pages on Wiki

* A few tasks about administration of Trac, Buildbot and GDAL website


The whole collection of bi-weekly reports is available on the Wiki:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/MaintenanceReportsByMateusz2007

Cheers
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net