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

[Tamas Szekeres]

+1 from me.

2014-10-01 14:07 GMT+02:00 Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>:

> 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
>
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