[gdal-dev] Of errors and their treatment in bindings

[Ari Jolma]

On 09/18/2010 04:43 AM, Howard Butler wrote:
> On Sep 17, 2010, at 7:12 AM, Ari Jolma wrote:
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>> Folks,
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>> I added binding to VSIStatL (my idea is to start using ReadDir from GDAL and I need to know if something is a file or a directory).
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> Why not use the more natural (to you the Perl programmer) facilities your language provides for determining this?  In my opinion, this adds a lot binding complexity for very little gain.
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On more reason, which I note now as I svn updated. There's also a Curl 
filesystem in GDAL with stat, readdir, etc. Thus the GDAL filesystem is 
quite powerful abstraction layer.

Ari