[gdal-dev] Motion: RFC 78: gdal-utils package

[Idan Miara]

Hi Matt,

Point noted. I've updated the Summary section:

Idan
Summary

This RFC suggests to put all the GDAL python modules (formly scripts),
except from the GDAL core SWIG bindings, into their own distribution on
pypi. The GDAL python sub-package osgeo.utils (introduced in GDAL 3.2)
would be renamed into a package named osgeo_utils.

The standalone python scripts from GDAL <= 3.1 were transformed to
osgeo.utils in GDAL 3.2. For backwards compatibility these scripts still
exist and function as tiny wrappers around the python modules. Users of
these scripts would not be effected from this RFC as the scripts would
continue to function in GDAL 3.3 in the same way as in GDAL <= 3.2.

To allow maximum backwards compatibility, The osgeo package (which includes
the GDAL core SWIG bindings) and the osgeo_utils package will continue to
be distributed in a single sdist named gdal in pypi.

In addition, a new pure python wheel distribution named gdal-utils will be
available in pypi under the name gdal-utils.

This will allow users who wish to upgrade the utils without upgrading the
bindings to do so with pip install --upgrade gdal-utils (see more details
in the following sections).


On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 at 00:11, mhw-at-yg <matt.wilkie at yukon.ca> wrote:

> Having been away from gdal-dev for some years, happily existing as an end
> of
> the line tool only user, and only recently re-engaging with the development
> community I have nothing to say on the strength and validity the RFC.
>
> I would like to comment though that it doesn't have a high altitude
> overview
> and say what gdal-utils is and where to look at it now. For instance is it
> all the files in ./gdal/swig/python/scripts/? or gdal/swig/python/osgeo/?
> or
> even gdal/swig/python? or somewhere else I haven't looked yet. It needn't
> be
> a lot words (there's so much there already it's hard for a newcomer like me
> to make out the structural bones). One sentence and a link would probably
> do
> it.
>
> I am excited about the prospect of a gdal-utils sub project, whether it
> remains within the core repository or is carved off into it's own. It would
> be a named place where my skills have a chance of contributing little
> somethings, and I could easily ignore the much larger set of things I don't
> understand in GDAL proper. ;-)
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
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