[gdal-dev] Remove Old Generation Python bindings for 1.7 release

[Howard Butler]

Enthusiastically, +1.  I'll even help do the surgery.

Howard

On Dec 15, 2009, at 4:24 AM, Jan Hartmann wrote:

> I'm not a developer, but I have had the same problems in my builds (I must compile everything on a Linux-cluster  as non-root in non-standard locations, with up-to-date versions of Python, that kind of thing).
> 
> Removing the old bindings would remove one further source of headaches, for me at least.
> 
> Jan
> 
> On 15-12-2009 5:36, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> Today I got tripped up in a windows build which compiled the old generation
>> python bindings by default.
>> 
>> I would like to remove the gdal/pymod directory from trunk before the 1.7.0
>> beta2 is cut.
>> 
>> The old generation bindings have been preserved but not well maintained for
>> several years after the establishment of the new multi-language bindings
>> because OpenEV requires the old generation bindings.  But at this point I think
>> they are too old to continue to carry along.
>> 
>> Does anyone have a concern with removing them?
>> 
>> Best regards,
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