[gdal-dev] Call for discussion/review of RFC95: Use standard C/C++ integer types

[Greg Troxel]

Sean Gillies <sean.gillies at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm in favor of overhauling the types in the next major version. However,
> I'm not convinced we need to jump immediately to 4.0. The current situation
> isn't ideal, but isn't holding us back very much right? GDAL is growing new
> features rapidly and it doesn't seem that the old types have been a blocker
> or huge friction for core developers.

As a packager:

  I don't care if the version number is 3.8 or 4.0.  That really doesn't
  matter.

  ABI breaks are significant, but not a huge big deal.   It requires
  marking all depending packages as needing new versions.   (I am
  expecting that these types are in signatures in the public ABI.)