On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Even Rouault <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > As for the notion of replacing some allocations with vectors, well, > great. > > But the GDAL codebase is creaky in lots of places and to get too > particular > > about the advantage/disadvantage of vectors seems a little silly. At > some > > point it's just reasonable to say that you're only going to support > > compilers/systems made after some date/version. People who don't want to > > upgrade a system aren't harmed. They always have access to an older > > version of the library. > > (Sometimes they want the latest version of the lib for a particular > feature on a ancient system.) > Yes, but I'm unsympathetic. This is free software. To make the system less maintainable for developers often working for free and more difficult for many other users for the sake of a few outliers is to me unappealing. If people want a feature integrated into some old system, they can certainly hire someone to do just that. -- Andrew Bell [email protected]
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