[gdal-dev] Regarding libkml driver

[Even Rouault]

Rashad,

> Hello all,
> 
> We have been working on a new fork of libkml library on github. The primary
> interest to detach from google/libkml was that various modification in the
> library are fragmented in the github forks and nothing gets merged. There
> is no activity or interest by original authors and all efforts to contact
> them failed. You can find more details on why it forked here -
> https://github.com/google/libkml/issues/4 . We had clearly explained this
> also in the readme of the fork.  As the library is used in many open source
> gis tools, we thought it might be worth to unify the efforts in one place.
> Fix bugs, submit patches, publish new releases and so on.

It would be great to have a lively libkml indeed, especially since the GDAL 
libkml driver depends on a unreleased version of the libkml code.

Any plan/timeline to produce an "official" release of your fork ?

> 
> Would it be possible to have gdal kml driver to use this version?  If so
> what will be the preferred way, submit a patch on trac will be
> sufficient?. 

Does the GDAL libkml driver actually need changes ? Are there been API changes 
?

> There are lot of enhancements and bug fixes in the fork. Most
> of them are towards build system.
> 
> https://github.com/libkml/libkml

Even

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