[gdal-dev] image-io extension

[Even Rouault]

Hi Viji,

I maintain the GDAL Java bindings, but the image-io GDAL plugin is another 
project whose maintener is Daniele I think. He'll correct me if I'm wrong, but 
I saw his name on http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/ImageIO-EXT+GDAL 
;-) . I've CC'ed him so he has a chance to comment and explain the rational of 
the patch.

I wasn't aware of this patch. I've skimmed through it quickly, and it seems 
that it only replaces old-fashionned data structures like Vector to use more 
trendish ArrayList + Java 1.5 generics. Well, this is certainly not a bad idea 
(something to consider for GDAL 2.0 ?), but I fail to see why it was 
*necessary* . I'm not particularly keen on applying this patch in GDAL 
mainline as it changes the API of the Java bindings, thus breaking working 
code of other users. I fail to see why ImageIO-EXT cannot use the existing 
API, even if it is perhaps not as convenient as it could be if it was using 
more modern Java API.

Best regards,

Even

Le jeudi 09 décembre 2010 14:18:18, Viji V Nair a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I am one of the GDAL co-maintainer for Fedora, I would like to have
> the image-io extension support, currently it been supported through
> the following patch from image-io. But I dont think this is a good
> idea as the modifications are bit heavy.
> 
> https://imageio-ext.dev.java.net/svn/imageio-ext/trunk/patches/gdal1.7.2.pa
> tch (Username : guest, Password: guest)
> 
> Is there any work going on related to this? Please share the ideas
> 
> Thanks
> Viji
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