[gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 59 (v2): GDAL/OGR utilities as a library

[Even Rouault]

Le mercredi 26 août 2015 21:44:10, Kyle Shannon a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Even Rouault
> 
> <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Summer of code 2015 being finished now, Faza's work now include
> > librarification of gdalinfo, gdal_translate, gdalwarp and ogr2ogr. Faza
> > will continue working on some other utilities.
> 
> Which other utilities are being considered?  Has there been any
> discussion or thoughts on this?

I think we discussed with Faza about pursuing with gdalbuildvrt. gdaldem would 
probably be interesting too. Anyone interested can contribute to the effort.

> 
> > We'd be happy to hear about your comments, especially on the API. So
> > speak now please.
> 
> The API looks good to me.
> 
> How does documentation work for utilities now? 

You mean for the binaries ? Well, it is unchanged. Mainly in 
gdal_utilities.dox, and for some of them (gdalwarp at least), in the .cpp.

> I guess changes should
> be documented in the *_lib.cpp or *_lib.h and also gdal_utilities.dox,
> similar to how the utilities closely coupled with certain alg/ APIs
> (gdalgrid for example).
> 
> > The overview of the work is there:
> > https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc59_utilities_as_a_library
> 
> If I am reading correctly, a separate lib will now be created.  Is
> this to keep the building cleaner? Is there a problem with just adding
> it to the libgdal C API?

The idea was to be a bit more modular, and avoid growing the core library.

> 
> > I'd like to call for a vote soon as I'd want that to be merged as soon as
> > possible, so it gets more widely tested and to avoid increasing merge
> > difficulties.
> > 
> > Even
> > 
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