On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Etienne Tourigny <etourigny....@gmail.com> wrote: > Frank, I have 2 issues I would like to address before 1.9 is released. > > 1) The ability to save the gdal commandline string and access it later. > > This is useful for the netcdf 'history' metadata, and consistent with > all other software that manipulates netcdf files. Suggested patch > adds 2 functions to gdal.h (only one is really needed) and modifies > GDALGeneralCmdLineProcessor() slightly (because that is where the > commandline is processed). > > Details and small patch are in bug #4297.
Etienne, I am ambivalent about this extension to GDAL behavior. Note that GDALGeneralCmdLineProcessor() is sometimes used by broader applications where it is not appropriate to record the commandline in dataset metadata. Imagine if someone had launched OpenEV with a database connection string that included userids and passwords and then during their session they saved a result to a netcdf files and it ended up capturing their session commandline? > 2) Fixes to importFromESRI - bugs #4345 and #4378 > > I have committed a fix to trunk (r23542) and it is optional, using a > Configuration Option to be activated. > It tries to fix missing parts of ESRI WKT (like TOWGS84 parameters and > DATUM and GEOGCS EPSG codes). > I would like to see if we can turn it on by default (at least for > DATUM and TOWGS84). I am terrified of this whole area of work, and have just tried to keep away from it so I won't be responsible if it causes problems. I hope you will take a low risk approach to this to minimize problems in 1.9. I hope you are also cooperating with ESRI staff to avoid to much conflict with their efforts. They have done a lot of work to try and improved the morph from/to ESRI format and I'd hate to see that badly broken in 1.9. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
