[gdal-dev] Draft GDAL/OGR class hierarchy for GDAL 2.0

[Tim Keitt]

Something to consider is writing an interface that wraps the old code.
Modern generic approaches make this easy.

Perhaps evaluate the Generic Image Library and Boost Geometry as candidates?

THK


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at mines-paris.org>wrote:

> Dmitriy,
>
> It is not at all my intention to have a big-bang for GDAL 2.0. According
> to the
> ohloh estimation ( http://www.ohloh.net/p/gdal/estimated_cost ), the
> cumulated
> development to make GDAL as it is currently would represent a 265
> person-years
> effort. I do think it is overestimated (they also include the external
> libraries
> that have been imported in the tree like libtiff, etc..); it should be
> closer to
> 30 person-years (2 full time position for the 15 years the project exist)
> but
> still... I don't think anything justifies a rewrite.
> My vision is more a series of incremental changes where the software
> remains
> stable and usable at each stage. That way you, we can make sure that GDAL
> 2.0
> can be released some day...
>
> Even
>
> > Hi Etienne,
> >
> > Yes, on first stage some format will be dropped. But exist GDAL 1.x will
> > help where.
> > It seems to me that rewriting of formats will not so hard as develop new
> > one.
> > NetCDF is popular form and should be rewrite in first stage. We can
> > create a wiki page with table of format and stages and responsibility -
> > so we see how the work will be hard.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >      Dmitry
> >
> >
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