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Frank Warmerdam writes<br>
<blockquote>Dmitry, could you publically reply to this message
indicating your<br>
willingness to follow RFC3?<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc3_commiters">http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc3_commiters</a><br>
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I have read the commiter guidelines and try my best to follow them.<br>
Also I can reply for this topics: <br>
<blockquote>For example, looking at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/search?q=bishop">http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/search?q=bishop</a> , I see :<br>
*
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/attachment/ticket/3557/ogr_mi_vsil.patch">http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/attachment/ticket/3557/ogr_mi_vsil.patch</a>
make <br>
changes in the MITAB library, whose GDAL is a downstream. The
usual process is <br>
to make sure that the changes are pushed first in upstream MITAB
CVS<br>
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This is subject to discuss and some guidance is welcome.<br>
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<blockquote>* <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/4463">http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/4463</a> :
internal'izing an external library <br>
is something to assess carefully. This introduces additionnal
maintenance <br>
issues (security fixes, refresh policy&process, potential
issues of symbol <br>
conflicts when an application link both to GDAL and the library,
etc...)<br>
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The last release of libkml version 1.2 was on Feb 2010. The 1.3
version of libkml was announced on Mar 2010 but not released yet. <br>
There is a problem to get libkml v.1.3 for gdal users
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://code.google.com/p/libkml/issues/detail?id=173#c0">http://code.google.com/p/libkml/issues/detail?id=173#c0</a>). <br>
But I see, that it may be potential problems with maintenance. This
is subject to discuss too.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Dmitry<br>
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