[gdal-dev] Twenty years of GDAL !

[Frank Warmerdam]

Even,

Wow, 20 years!  Thanks for pointing out this milestone.

It is a huge pleasure to know that:
 - it has been a core technology supporting so many other software packages
and projects
 - it has been a project that lots of people have felt comfortable
contributing to

GDAL is the core of our data processing pipeline at Planet where we have a
number of esoteric internal GDAL drivers, so I continue to use it every
day.

Special thanks to Even who's outsize contribution has kept the project
healthy and progressing as I focused on other activities.

Best regards,
Frank


On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 6:51 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
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 ...
>
> --
> Spatialys - Geospatial professional services
> http://www.spatialys.com
>


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