GDAL Bindings for Go

[Luke Roth]

For any who are interested, I've published a (incomplete, but growing)
set of GDAL bindings for the Go language at
https://github.com/lukeroth/gdal.go .
The bindings cover most of the GDAL C API, the OGR C API is next.
More details are available at the Github page. Let me know if you
find them useful!
Luke

[Michael Jones]

Nice! You're speaking my language.

Luke

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[Even Rouault]

The majority of GDAL bindings (Perl, Python, Java, C# at least) are generated
by using SWIG bindings ( see swig/include in GDAL source tree ). Looking
quickly at http://www.swig.org/Doc2.0/Go.html , it seems you could possibly
have used it instead of writing from scratch. But I've never used Go, nor the
SWIG Go generator, so just take it as a hint, not an enlightened advice based
on experience.

Anyway, you could create a page to advertise your Go bindings in GDAL Trac (
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GdalOgrInGo for example ) and make a link to
it from the "GDAL/OGR In Other Languages" section of the main Trac page (
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki )

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[Luke Roth]

A good point. I considered using SWIG to generate the bindings, it
looks like the support is pretty good, but I decided to "roll my own"
for now for a couple of reasons. I thought it would be a good way to
learn by getting my hands dirty with some of the lower-level nuts and
bolts of Go, and it would give me a chance to look closely at the API
and see where there were opportunities to make it more "go-like".
Going forward, I might try seeing how SWIG handles things, it might
make long-term maintenance easier (although the GDAL API is pretty
mature at this point).
I'll take a look at the GDAL Trac pages, although I might wait until
I've had a chance to fill in some of the missing areas and add to the
(currently pretty minimal) documentation.
Luke

[minux]

On Oct 4, 2012 2:46 AM, "Luke Roth" <roth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> set of GDAL bindings for the Go language at
> https://github.com/lukeroth/gdal.go .

i suggest you change the project name to avoid ".go" suffix,
or it  will confuse "go get".

[Luke Roth]

Thanks, I just noticed that when I pulled the code to a new machine.
I've renamed the repository to
https://github.com/lukeroth/gdal_go to avoid the problem.
Luke