Happy Birthday GDAL! GDAL has been a large chunk of my professional career. I am still using the library and tools every day.
Thank you Frank, Even and the entire GDAL community. Norman On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:32 AM Jeff McKenna <[email protected]> wrote: > Happy birthday GDAL! (I shared a beer last week with Frank in SanFran) > Thank you to Frank, Even, and the whole GDAL community of coders, > testers, packagers, and users! > > -jeff > > > > On 2018-10-17 10:51 PM, Even Rouault wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I nearly missed it [1] (actually I'm already on the 18th here, but let's > consider > > Canadian time so still on the 17th), but exactly 20 years go on Oct 17th > 1998, > > Frank Warmerdam committed for the first time in the CSV repository. > > > > ''' > > commit 149db916aafcbee9bb64572fafda83441c94a552 > > Author: Frank Warmerdam <[email protected]> > > Date: Sat Oct 17 19:24:36 1998 +0000 > > > > Initial implementation. > > > > > > git-svn-id: https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk@2 > f0d54148-0727-0410-94bb-9a71ac55c965 > > ''' > > > > > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/commit/149db916aafcbee9bb64572fafda83441c94a552 > > > > 169 lines for a first version of the virtual I/O layer... > > > > Since then, > > * 39075 commits have been added on top of it, > > * 159 raster drivers > > * 96 vector drivers [2] > > * by 161 committers (actually there are more contributors, here just > counting > > the ones who have directly authored a CVS, SVN or git commit), > > * adding 7110 files in the repository, for a grand total of > > * 2.192 millions lines in 3745 files with extensions c, cpp, h, hh, hpp, > py, > > html, java, cs, i, pl, vc, sh, bat, dox, ac, GNUmakefile (80 MB) (all > the text files) > > so an average of 300 lines per day added > > * 64 releases > > * 6287 tickets closed > > * 49097 messages posted on gdal-dev > > * more than 100 software proudly mentionning using it > > > > Happy birthday and long life to GDAL and its commmnity of contributors, > either > > by code, documentation, testing, packaging, reports, ... ! > > > > Even > > > > [1] thanks to Robert Coup for reminding me a few days ago about the > approaching date ! > > [2] you'll note that 155 + 96 = 255, but I don't think there's a > > Byte limitation for the number of drivers ... > > > > > -- > Jeff McKenna > MapServer Consulting and Training Services > https://gatewaygeomatics.com/ > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
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