[gdal-dev] shapefile enhancements

[Sandro Mani]

Hello Jan,

On a related note: for the Fedora package which I maintain, I've also 
added a number of out of tree patches: mainly backporting the 
improvements from the version bundled in gdal as well as replacing the 
buildsystem with an autotools one, to allow easy mingw 
cross-compilation. My patches can be found here: 
https://github.com/manisandro/shapelib, the changes are in the autotools 
and gdal branches. I wrote to Frank a while back enquiring as to what 
his intentions with shapelib were, unfortunately I didn't get any reply 
to date. I'd definitely be interested in seeing shapelib continuing its 
life outside of gdal (since for some projects, pulling in the entire 
gdal is excessive), so if you are also interested in continuing the 
development of shapelib (and maybe have better luck than I on getting 
Franks opinions, or at least blessing on releasing a new shapelib), I'd 
be happy to help.

Best,
Sandro