[gdal-dev] GSOC 2015 proposal - Integration of cpp GDAL utilities into GDAL core library

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Sean Gillies <sean <at> mapbox.com> writes:

> 
> 
> Hi all,
> I'm not entirely clear on the signatures of the new functions. Are we
considering new functions that would be called with a single string argument
like this?
> 
>   ogr2ogr('-of "ESRI Shapefile" example.shp example.json')
> 
> From my perspective this would be sort of a disaster. Instead of using
features of our programming languages to handle function arguments (good),
we'd be formatting strings (bad). It's much better to have this:
> 
>   ogr2ogr('example.json', 'example.shp', of='ESRI Shapefile')


Hi,

My point of view as a relatively experienced user of GDAL utilities is that
I hardly remember to change the order of input/output when using ogr2ogr and
gdal_translate and I have always been wondering why they do not use
parameters like -i and -o so that the order would not matter.

This thinking has a connection with the command line section in 
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GDAL20Changes

-Jukka Rahkonen-