[gdal-dev] CSharp bindings queued for removal (was Re: GDAL CSharp bindings maintainers/contributors listening... ?)

[Paul Harwood]

I think it more reflects this thread
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2021-April/053868.html

On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 at 09:11, Rahkonen Jukka <
jukka.rahkonen at maanmittauslaitos.fi> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> The named maintainer thing may reflect this thread Re: [gdal-dev] C#
> bindings compilation
> <https://www.mail-archive.com/gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org/msg35936.html>
> from 2021.
>
>
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>
>
>
> *Lähettäjä:* gdal-dev <gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> *Puolesta *Paul
> Harwood via gdal-dev
> *Lähetetty:* keskiviikko 29. tammikuuta 2025 10.14
> *Vastaanottaja:* Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
> *Kopio:* gdal-dev <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Aihe:* Re: [gdal-dev] CSharp bindings queued for removal (was Re: GDAL
> CSharp bindings maintainers/contributors listening... ?)
>
>
>
> It seems to be a hyper aggressive move to go from a highly technical
> question about UTF-8 to "remove C# totally".
>
>
>
> If the question is "We need a named maintainer for C# or we remove it"
> then I will step forward since I have an app that depends on it. However, I
> don't feel competent enough in SWIG to address detailed changes such as
> UTF-8 without help.
>
>
>
> I seem to remember saying the same thing a few years ago and did not even
> get an acknowledgement that I had responded.
>
>
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2025, 04:32 Even Rouault via gdal-dev, <
> gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> Hearing silence, the only logical conclusion is that there is no interest
> ==> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11746
>
>
>
> Le 27/09/2024 à 20:15, Even Rouault via gdal-dev a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> This is your regular remainder that nobody in the core GDAL maintainer
> team is a CSharp aficionado (we don't have a personal grief against it,
> just that we are blatantly ignorant, at least speaking for myself !), so
> related tickets about it will definitely result in no action.
>
> See
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22csharp+bindings%22
>
> The current trend is that people seem to be annoyed by UTF-8 related
> issues. The issue is likely that our methods that accept or take a const
> char* in the SWIG bindings should use a specific typemap to map to CSharp
> Unicode strings instead of the "C" one or whatever those concepts are
> called in CSharp. There is an existing "utf8_path" typemap that is used in
> method that accept filenames, that should probably be renamed to
> utf8_string and be used more extensively. And probably with a version of
> the methods to also return a raw C string / bytearray in the cases where
> drivers don't know the encoding and might return "random" stuff. Cf pull
> request #10652 where I did something for Java that suffered from that later
> issue.
>
> Happy pull requests!
>
> Even
>
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