Dan Baston

Should a `FindOpenDrive.cmake` file be added to avoid the following output in the cmake configure step? ``` CMake Warning at cmake/helpers/CheckDependentLibraries.cmake:149 (find_package): By not providing "FindOpenDrive.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project...

The ["foreign" package](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/foreign/index.html), which is distributed with base R (the language), uses the `shapelib` DBF reader. Their SVN repo is https://svn.r-project.org/R-packages/trunk/foreign/src/ , mirrored to GitHub at https://github.com/cran/foreign

It [looks like](https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2018-November/027518.html) PostGIS is moving in the direction of not providing lwgeom as system library. So dropping use of the system library may be the best way to go....

> Why would running clang-format as a pre-commit hook change its behaivor? The hook specifies the version of clang-format: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/12dab86ca2d8b1a65c4c085e137c62294682ac1d/.pre-commit-config.yaml#L30-L31

I see that `from_chars` is also available from the vendored [fast_float](https://github.com/fastfloat/fast_float).

Would it be helpful if I put a comment at the top of the `.rst` files along the lines of "the text rendered on this page is automatically generated from...

> (one large and complex polygon intersected with a fishnet of smaller square polygons went from 768s down to 130s). This special case can benefit from more optimization than is...

This is a bit tricky because the docs include some `.rst` files (driver summaries) that are generated at build time by a Python script invoked by `make`. Since Sphinx requires...

Are there other cases where the build process writes to the tree for an out-of-tree build? I didn't want to be the first.

> This is a bit tricky because the docs include some .rst files (driver summaries) that are generated at build time by a Python script invoked by make We could...