[gdal-dev] Nullable fields in OGR

Mateusz Loskot mateusz at loskot.net
Sat Feb 20 20:40:21 EST 2010


Jason Roberts wrote:
>> I'd be careful as abstractions of abstractions can easily lead to 
>> fat beasts which can do everything, but are complex as hell where 
>> nobody understands what is what and how it actually works.
> 
> I believe I learned this as oopaholism, a disease in which someone
> becomes so addicted to object orientation that they spend all of
> their time working on frameworks that don't actually DO anything. :-)


Jason, you're reading my mind :-)

> Seriously, all I am trying to do is build some tools that can work in
> multiple GISes without having rewriting large portions of the tools
> once for each GIS. If that, in itself, is pointless or not doable at
> this moment in time, then I guess I am crazy.

Understood. Good luck!

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org


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