[gdal-dev] more commands, less utilities

[Frank Warmerdam]

Matt Wilkie wrote:
>> Upon reflection, I think we should congregate these utilities into a
>> single utility -- gdaldem (I'm totally flexible on the name -- and
>> have each be a separate operation within that rather than
>> proliferating five more GDAL utilities.
>  -- http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2640
> 
> I like the idea of gdaldem with commands rather than seperate utilities.
> 
> For some time I've considered proprosing that we do the same with gdal
> so that `merge`, `warp`, `translate`, etc. become commands to a single
> gdal utility. Ditto for ogr. I've hesitated because there is so much 
> inertia (and I'd be asking others to do work that I can't!).

Matt, etc,

I would say that before folks become too dependent on the existing
utility interface is the time to do a change like this.

I did introduce gdal_manage so that small operations would not need
to each be a distinct utility.

Best regards,
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