+1 from me. 2014-10-01 14:07 GMT+02:00 Even Rouault <[email protected]>:
> 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 > > -- > Spatialys - Geospatial professional services > http://www.spatialys.com > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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