Re: [gdal-dev] GDAL/OGR 2.0 Notes

Ivan Lucena ivan.lucena at pmldnet.com
Thu Sep 23 13:48:43 EDT 2010


>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Ari Jolma <ari.jolma at gmail.com>
>  To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
>  Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] GDAL/OGR 2.0 Notes
>  Sent: Sep 23 '10 09:04
>  
>  On 09/22/2010 09:52 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>  > Folks,
>  >
>  > In IRC I was just mentioning to Howard that we might want to drop use of
>  > CPL_STDCALL in the GDAL API if a 2.0 release ever occurs.  It seemed
>  > to me
>  > that such ideas ought to be kept track of so off the "Developer"
>  > section of
>  > the Trac wiki I have created a page for this and pre-populated it with
>  > a few
>  > items.  Please feel free to add other cleanup suitable to do at such an
>  > ABI breaking version.
>  >
>  >   http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GDAL20Changes
>  >
>  > As we are running out of 1.x numbers (1.8.0 hopfully coming out soon)
>  
>  We can always have 1.10 and 1.11 etc. That would not be uncommon (there
>  is for example Perl 5.10 as we're waiting for Perl 6). However, I'm for

I like that.

>  having 2.0, not just because numbers ran out but because that would be a
>  chance to do something a bit more major. One idea would be to make a
>  general call for new ideas and wish lists.

But maybe the support for UNICODE could be considered a major change. No?

IMHO,

Ivan

>  
>  Best regards,
>  
>  Ari
>  
>  > , I'm
>  > thinking about a 2.0 release for something like the fall of 2012 -
>  > just in
>  > time for the world to end.
>  >
>  > Best regards,
>  
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