[gdal-dev] ogrinfo not a C callable function?

Paul Meems bontepaarden at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 07:31:05 PDT 2016


Hi Even,

Thanks for the clarification.
We will update our code accordingly.

Regards,

Paul

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2016-08-04 13:41 GMT+02:00 Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>:

> On Thursday 04 August 2016 13:25:19 Paul Meems wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I look at RFC 59.1 (
> > https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc59.1_utilities_as_a_library) I see
> > gdalinfo,exe, ogr2ogr.exe are all C callable functions now.
> >
> > But I don't see ogrinfo?
> > Do I understand it right that ogrinfo.exe is not a C callable function?
>
> Yes
>
> > If so is there a specific reason for that or will it be implemented in
> the
> > near future?
>
> The most uses of ogrinfo output features in the console with the
> DumpFeature()
> call, which doesn't make sense for a library function, so a librarified
> version
> would just address the metadata part. Which you can easily access through
> the
> C/C++ API already.
>
> Even
>
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