[GRASS-dev] broken API

[Glynn Clements]

Maciej Sieczka wrote:

> > The question is if the change keeps backwards compatibility for
> > GDAL, QGIS and other applications which rely on this file.
> 
> Since gdal-grass plugin fails to build with 6.3 CVS too, will r.out.gdal in
> 6.3 CVS work when I build the plugin against 6.2.2 CVS, and keep both 6.2.2
> and 6.3 installed?

In 6.2, r.out.gdal is a script which uses gdal_translate, so it
requires a GRASS-enabled GDAL. In 6.3, r.out.gdal is a C program which
only uses GDAL for the output side, so it doesn't matter whether GDAL
has GRASS support.

So, the 6.3 version of r.out.gdal won't use GDAL's GRASS support
unless you use it to export to GRASS (why would you want to do that?).

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>