[gdal-dev] Re: OGR Driver for Norwegian SOSI standard
Mateusz Łoskot
mateusz at loskot.net
Thu Nov 17 10:07:22 EST 2011
On 17 November 2011 14:28, Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
>> My main question is in how far the included code has to follow RFC 8. It
>> would be quite a task to make it follow the gdal-Hungarian prefix dialect,
>> or even to translate variables and method names to plain English.
>
> Those requirements apply certainly for the core of GDAL, but they can be relaxed
> for drivers. I also don't believe that it would be reasonable to ask for
> rewriting all variable names and translating them.
IMHO, it should be strict and should require English only names in code.
It's important for maintenance in future.
Best regards,
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