[gdal-dev] Importing completely MITAB into GDAL source tree ?

[Bo Victor Thomsen]

A very big +1 from me (As an occasional user of MiTab and a very small 
contributor to MiTab)

Regards
Bo Victor Thomsen
AestasGIS
Denmark

Den 01-10-2014 14:07, Even Rouault skrev:
> Hi,
>
> As some of you know, the OGR MapInfo driver heavily depends on the source code
> of the MITAB library. Over the years, people have contributed fixes and
> improvements through GDAL. Not all those changes have made their way in the
> official MITAB repository that sits at https://github.com/mapgears/mitab and
> which has not evolved a lot in comparison to its copy in OGR.
> Maintaining 2 copies and synchronizing them is a time consuming and error-
> prone process.
> On the other hand, there are still people that depend on the standalone MITAB
> library, its utilities (tab2tab, etc...) and its dedicated C API. So I'm
> wondering if it wouldn't be more efficient to import those specific remaining
> parts (standalone build scripts, C API and utilities) into the GDAL source
> tree (probably a ogr/ogrsf_frmts/mitab/build and ogr/ogrsf_frmts/mitab/apps)
> That way both projects would share the same code in a very obvious way, while
> keeping their specificities.
>
> Thoughts ?
>
> Even
>