[gdal-dev] Twenty years of GDAL !

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

I nearly missed it [1] (actually I'm already on the 18th here, but let's consider
Canadian time so still on the 17th), but exactly 20 years go on Oct 17th 1998,
Frank Warmerdam committed for the first time in the CSV repository.

'''
commit 149db916aafcbee9bb64572fafda83441c94a552
Author: Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
Date:   Sat Oct 17 19:24:36 1998 +0000

    Initial implementation.
    
    
    git-svn-id: https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk@2 f0d54148-0727-0410-94bb-9a71ac55c965
'''

https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/commit/149db916aafcbee9bb64572fafda83441c94a552

169 lines for a first version of the virtual I/O layer...

Since then,
* 39075 commits have been added on top of it,
* 159 raster drivers
* 96 vector drivers [2]
* by 161 committers (actually there are more contributors, here just counting
  the ones who have directly authored a CVS, SVN or git commit),
* adding 7110 files in the repository, for a grand total of
* 2.192 millions lines in 3745 files with extensions c, cpp, h, hh, hpp, py,
  html, java, cs, i, pl, vc, sh, bat, dox, ac, GNUmakefile (80 MB) (all the text files)
  so an average of 300 lines per day added
* 64 releases
* 6287 tickets closed
* 49097 messages posted on gdal-dev
* more than 100 software proudly mentionning using it

Happy birthday and long life to GDAL and its commmnity of contributors, either
by code, documentation, testing, packaging, reports, ... !

Even

[1] thanks to Robert Coup for reminding me a few days ago about the approaching date !
[2] you'll note that 155 + 96 = 255, but I don't think there's a
    Byte limitation for the number of drivers ...

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