Hi, On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 2:51 PM Alan Snow <alansno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One recommendation I have for this RFC would be to remove gdal_utils > entirely from the main GDAL repository and into its own repository. > The main reason would be to test against multiple versions of GDAL to > ensure compatibility. Compatibility across versions is a main goal of this > RFC if I understand correctly, so that is why I bring it up. > > Hope that is helpful, > Alan > Thank you for bringing this up and joining the discussion, Alan!. I agree that gdal_utils is a lot like projects we work on together in this respect. I scanned the RFC and am confused about what I read in https://github.com/talos-gis/gdal/blob/Branch_rfc78_py_modules/gdal/doc/source/development/rfc/rfc78_gdal_utils_package.rst#how-to-upgrade-the-utils-without-upgrading-the-bindings . > pip install a wheel overwrites whichever files already exist (even if installed by a different package) If you pip install gdal then pip install gdal-utils you'd get the utils from gdal-utils. If later you do again pip install gdal with a different version then you'd get the utils from gdal again, and so on. (it doesn't seem that it matters which version is a bigger number, just which one you installed later) How certain are we of this? I am not 100% certain that this is true or that the behavior of pip here is totally specified. Even if it is true, it seems like there is a lot of potential for confusion. I think it would be much better for users if we didn't have 2 distributions contending for the same namespace. -- Sean Gillies
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