Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-04-03 Thread Etienne Tourigny
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Kyle Shannon k...@pobox.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Etienne Tourigny etourigny@gmail.com wrote: The 2 objections I have with json are : - it is so verbose that editing by hand is not as easy as .csv - the xml tags make file size much

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-04-01 Thread Etienne Tourigny
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Even Rouault even.roua...@mines-paris.orgwrote: Hi Etienne, Thanks for your ideas. Hi all, I have a few suggestions for gdal 2.0, based on my personal experience in learning to use, enhance and maintain gdal/ogr code. - replace cpl/csl/string/xml

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-04-01 Thread Etienne Tourigny
The 2 objections I have with json are : - it is so verbose that editing by hand is not as easy as .csv - the xml tags make file size much larger than .csv files, unless they would be stored in a compressed file (gzip) On the other hand, who messes with theses files on a regular basis anyway? It

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-04-01 Thread Kyle Shannon
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Etienne Tourigny etourigny@gmail.com wrote: The 2 objections I have with json are : - it is so verbose that editing by hand is not as easy as .csv - the xml tags make file size much larger than .csv files, unless they would be stored in a compressed file

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-03-31 Thread Etienne Tourigny
Hi all, I have a few suggestions for gdal 2.0, based on my personal experience in learning to use, enhance and maintain gdal/ogr code. - replace cpl/csl/string/xml code with a mainstream, modern cross-platform toolkit such as QT, boost, etc. While cpl/csl classes are robust and do the job, they

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-03-31 Thread Even Rouault
Hi Etienne, Thanks for your ideas. Hi all, I have a few suggestions for gdal 2.0, based on my personal experience in learning to use, enhance and maintain gdal/ogr code. - replace cpl/csl/string/xml code with a mainstream, modern cross-platform toolkit such as QT, boost, etc. QT is

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-03-31 Thread Mateusz Łoskot
On 31 March 2014 20:17, Etienne Tourigny etourigny@gmail.com wrote: I have a few suggestions for gdal 2.0, based on my personal experience in learning to use, enhance and maintain gdal/ogr code. - replace cpl/csl/string/xml code with a mainstream, modern cross-platform toolkit such as

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-03-31 Thread Dmitriy Baryshnikov
Hi, I think the JSON format is good for metadata storing and representation. JSON support to store string, digits, bool, dates, etc. Write such data and read such data from files. But need good library or set of classes to work with it in memory representation. For example I like wxJSON - it

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-03-31 Thread Mateusz Łoskot
On 31 March 2014 21:37, Dmitriy Baryshnikov bishop@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I think the JSON format is good for metadata storing and representation. JSON support to store string, digits, bool, dates, etc. IMO it's great idea. It consist only 3 files (json reader, json writer and json

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-03-31 Thread Dmitriy Baryshnikov
Hi Mateus, That's really what I'm talking about. Good example, but need some testing. Best regards, Dmitry 31.03.2014 23:44, Mateusz Łoskot пишет: On 31 March 2014 21:37, Dmitriy Baryshnikov bishop@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I think the JSON format is good for metadata storing and

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-03-31 Thread David Strip
On 3/31/2014 1:03 PM, Even Rouault wrote: Hi Etienne, Thanks for your ideas. Hi all, I have a few suggestions for gdal 2.0, based on my personal experience in learning to use, enhance and maintain gdal/ogr code. - replace cpl/csl/string/xml code with a mainstream, modern cross-platform

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-03-31 Thread Even Rouault
Le mardi 01 avril 2014 00:18:11, David Strip a écrit : On 3/31/2014 1:03 PM, Even Rouault wrote: Hi Etienne, Thanks for your ideas. Hi all, I have a few suggestions for gdal 2.0, based on my personal experience in learning to use, enhance and maintain gdal/ogr code. -

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-02-21 Thread Dmitriy Baryshnikov
Hi Even, I plan to participate in code sprint too and work on GDAL. In addition to the mentioned tasks I would like to discuss some politics and direction to add new functionality to GDAL. Best regards, Dmitry 14.02.2014 1:14, Even Rouault пишет: Hi, I've confirmed my presence to the

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-02-21 Thread Even Rouault
Selon Dmitriy Baryshnikov bishop@gmail.com: Hi Even, I plan to participate in code sprint too and work on GDAL. In addition to the mentioned tasks I would like to discuss some politics and direction to add new functionality to GDAL. Great, perhaps you can share some of your thoughts

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-02-21 Thread Dmitriy Baryshnikov
Hi Even, On code sprint I can work on: - unification of OGR driver model with GDAL driver - XYZM - cmake for GDAL That about thoughts - e.g. now I work on linear referencing using OGR datasources. As the absence of M value I use other algorithms. So I have ogrlineref application which can

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-02-21 Thread Even Rouault
Selon Dmitriy Baryshnikov bishop@gmail.com: Hi Even, On code sprint I can work on: - unification of OGR driver model with GDAL driver - XYZM - cmake for GDAL That about thoughts - e.g. now I work on linear referencing using OGR datasources. As the absence of M value I use other

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-02-18 Thread Kyle Shannon
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Even Rouault even.roua...@mines-paris.org wrote: Hi, I've confirmed my presence to the OSGeo Vienna code sprint ( http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Vienna_Code_Sprint_2014 ). Are there folks that will be there and indent doing some work on GDAL ? Any particular

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-02-18 Thread Even Rouault
Hi, I meant to bring this up in my earlier email, but it slipped my mind. Or maybe I didn't want to open a can of worms. What exactly would 'unification' entail? I assume all ogr drivers would have to inherit GDALMajorObject (and probably OGRDataSource and OGRLayer maybe?) and then ogr

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-02-16 Thread Kyle Shannon
Even, thanks for the notes. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Even Rouault even.roua...@mines-paris.org wrote: Thanks for your thoughs Kyle. I expect more developers and PSC members to express theirs too. How long would the stable branches be maintained? Would we handle as we do now, with

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-02-16 Thread Kyle Shannon
Dmitriy, What version of cmake is required. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Dmitriy Baryshnikov bishop@gmail.com wrote: Hi, As cmake4gdal developer I think there is no problem with cmake. By now we main code is cmaked, and deal only with some drivers (GDAL or OGR), which needed cmake

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-02-16 Thread Dmitriy Baryshnikov
Hi Kyle, The minimum version cmake is 2.8.8 because it have some required functionality: add_library(name OBJECT src...) and TARGET_OBJECTS:objlib some discussion can be found here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/3379 But in scripts I set VERSION 2.8.10 -

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-02-15 Thread Kyle Shannon
Hi, Just a few thoughts/questions... On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Even Rouault even.roua...@mines-paris.org wrote: Hi, I've confirmed my presence to the OSGeo Vienna code sprint ( http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Vienna_Code_Sprint_2014 ). Are there folks that will be there and indent doing

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-02-15 Thread Even Rouault
Thanks for your thoughs Kyle. I expect more developers and PSC members to express theirs too. How long would the stable branches be maintained? Would we handle as we do now, with one stable branch and one development branch, or would we backport bug fixes to n branches (3.1, 2.4, etc)?

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-02-15 Thread Frank Warmerdam
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Even Rouault even.roua...@mines-paris.orgwrote: Currently we have no such breakage in trunk so it could qualify as GDAL 1.11. Perhaps we should just release it as such for now before the bigger changes ? Even, I think that 2.0 could be kept for breaking

Re: [gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-02-15 Thread Dmitriy Baryshnikov
Hi, As cmake4gdal developer I think there is no problem with cmake. By now we main code is cmaked, and deal only with some drivers (GDAL or OGR), which needed cmake scripts. I make needed cmake scripts for drivers what I use in may work. So, with some help we can do all cmake scripts rather

[gdal-dev] Misc. subjects : OSGeo Vienna code sprint, release plans, GDAL 2.0

2014-02-13 Thread Even Rouault
Hi, I've confirmed my presence to the OSGeo Vienna code sprint ( http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Vienna_Code_Sprint_2014 ). Are there folks that will be there and indent doing some work on GDAL ? Any particular topics of interest ? It could be the opportunity to take a crack at some changes that