Hi, Even answered in a mail on Thu May 2 00:43:37 PDT 2019:
"Well, I was about *releasing* the version, and don't intend to postpone it significantly, so no there won't be any surprise last-minute changes than the ones already documented in MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT. After all, major version numbers are cheap, so if during the next dev cycle 3.1dev turns out to need API breaks, it will be 4.0 ..." -Jukka Rahkonen- Robert Coup wrote > Hi all, > > On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 10:19, Even Rouault < > even.rouault@ > > > wrote: > >> >> Motion: GDAL/OGR 3.0.0 rc2 is promoted to be the official 3.0.0 final >> release. >> > > (I'm not a PSC member) > > 1. I agree with bumping to 3.0 with the significant changes > > 2. If we're bumping a major version, shouldn't we take that opportunity to > swap some other backwards-incompatible defaults rather than wait for > several more years to do it? Off the top of my head I'm thinking things > like: > > - Python's UseExceptions() defaulting to true > - Python's object lifecycle management (I guess in theory this can be > fixed in a compatible way?) > - GeoJSON defaulting to 2008 instead of RFC7946 > - I'm sure there's a pile of others. > > Feels like 3.0 has been chosen for good reasons, but without stepping back > to go "what other longstanding warts do we want to address at 3.0?". I > don't know if there's a major rush on to get a release out in time for > some > cutoff date? Otherwise I suggest we take an opportunity to step back and > swap some odd defaults that have been hanging around for years for > compatibility. > > Cheers, > > Rob :) > > -- > > Chief Technology Officer Koordinates > > +44 759 987 3480 <+44%20759%209873480> / koordinates.com / @koordinates > <https://twitter.com/koordinates> > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@.osgeo > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/GDAL-Dev-f3742093.html _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
