GDAL core is mostly C++ but it is exposed thru a 'C' interface for stability reasons
e.g. the 'C API' is stable thru major releases whereas the underlying implementation may change On Mar 1, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Aaron Boxer <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Norman! That is very useful. > I haven't decided yet whether to use C or C++ for the library language. > Is the gdal core C or C++? I am tending to C over C++, just for portability. > But I want to avoid the spaghetti code I see in OpenJPEG. > > Any comments on this? > > Thanks again, > Aaron > > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Norman Vine <[email protected]> wrote: > These should help > > http://gdal.org/gdal_drivertut.html > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/gdal/frmts/openjpeg/openjpegdataset.cpp > > On Mar 1, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Aaron Boxer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I recently started developing an open source jpeg2000 compression library >> using opencl. >> I would like to base the library design on the very successful gdal library >> design. >> Can anyone recomend any resources to help me to grok the high level design >> of gdal? >> >> Thanks so much, >> Aaron >> _______________________________________________ >> gdal-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > >
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