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

[Kyle Shannon]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
> 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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>> Thanks.
>
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Thanks Even...

-- 
Kyle