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 gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
