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

[Homme Zwaagstra]

Hi,

On 01/04/15 22:52, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
> 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.

I agree: this is a niggle that grows with time! Or at least standardise 
so you
have:

  command <options> src_datasource_name... dst_datasource_name

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

Looking on the bright side, at least with the new proposal it will be fairly
trivial to create your own command line interface to GDAL; perhaps not 
portable
but satisfying!  I've always favoured a git style approach along the 
following
lines...

   gdal <global-options> subcommand <options> <args>

Best regards,

Homme

> -Jukka Rahkonen-
 > _______________________________________________
 > gdal-dev mailing list
 > gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
 > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/attachments/20150402/5ea01771/attachment.html>