[gdal-dev] Regarding libkml driver

[Donovan Cameron]

I've compiled libkml from the libkml/libkml git repo and really like 
that minizip for example is an external dependency.
This makes it so that other applications that require minizip can be 
compiled easily now.



Donovan

On 11/08/15 09:56 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 11-08-15 18:37, Kurt Schwehr wrote:
>> Wolf and I have joined in working on libkml.  We will be getting more
>> transitioned from the old code.google.com site to
>> https://github.com/google/libkml, will be pushing some general maintanence
>> patches and will be getting the pull request processed.  We look forward to
>> collaborating on future development of libkml.
> The renewed interest in libkml from Google sounds promising.
>
> What are your views on merging the work in the libkml/libkml fork back
> into google/libkml?
>
> The switch to CMake and removal of the third party dependencies in favor
> of linking to system provided libraries solve the issues that required
> patches in the libkml Debian package in the past. I'd like to see these
> changes merged back into google/libkml to not loose these gains.
>
> Most importantly the final 1.3.0 libkml release is long overdue, it has
> been required for GDAL for many years now but many distributions still
> ship libkml 1.2 (Fedora removed libkml even because it was abandoned
> upstream). What do you think needs to be done to get the 1.3.0 release out?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
>

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Kind regards,

Donovan