[gdal-dev] Twenty years of GDAL !

[Norman Barker]

Happy Birthday GDAL! GDAL has been a large chunk of my professional career.
I am still using the library and tools every day.

Thank you Frank, Even and the entire GDAL community.

Norman

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:32 AM Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
wrote:

> Happy birthday GDAL!  (I shared a beer last week with Frank in SanFran)
> Thank you to Frank, Even, and the whole GDAL community of coders,
> testers, packagers, and users!
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2018-10-17 10:51 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
> > 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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