<div dir="ltr">+1 from me.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-10-01 14:07 GMT+02:00 Even Rouault <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com" target="_blank">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
As some of you know, the OGR MapInfo driver heavily depends on the source code<br>
of the MITAB library. Over the years, people have contributed fixes and<br>
improvements through GDAL. Not all those changes have made their way in the<br>
official MITAB repository that sits at <a href="https://github.com/mapgears/mitab" target="_blank">https://github.com/mapgears/mitab</a> and<br>
which has not evolved a lot in comparison to its copy in OGR.<br>
Maintaining 2 copies and synchronizing them is a time consuming and error-<br>
prone process.<br>
On the other hand, there are still people that depend on the standalone MITAB<br>
library, its utilities (tab2tab, etc...) and its dedicated C API. So I'm<br>
wondering if it wouldn't be more efficient to import those specific remaining<br>
parts (standalone build scripts, C API and utilities) into the GDAL source<br>
tree (probably a ogr/ogrsf_frmts/mitab/build and ogr/ogrsf_frmts/mitab/apps)<br>
That way both projects would share the same code in a very obvious way, while<br>
keeping their specificities.<br>
<br>
Thoughts ?<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Even<br>
<br>
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