A very big +1 from me (As an occasional user of MiTab and a very small
contributor to MiTab)
Regards
Bo Victor Thomsen
AestasGIS
Denmark
Den 01-10-2014 14:07, Even Rouault skrev:
Hi,
As some of you know, the OGR MapInfo driver heavily depends on the source code
of the MITAB library. Over the years, people have contributed fixes and
improvements through GDAL. Not all those changes have made their way in the
official MITAB repository that sits at https://github.com/mapgears/mitab and
which has not evolved a lot in comparison to its copy in OGR.
Maintaining 2 copies and synchronizing them is a time consuming and error-
prone process.
On the other hand, there are still people that depend on the standalone MITAB
library, its utilities (tab2tab, etc...) and its dedicated C API. So I'm
wondering if it wouldn't be more efficient to import those specific remaining
parts (standalone build scripts, C API and utilities) into the GDAL source
tree (probably a ogr/ogrsf_frmts/mitab/build and ogr/ogrsf_frmts/mitab/apps)
That way both projects would share the same code in a very obvious way, while
keeping their specificities.
Thoughts ?
Even
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