Release nickname?

[rsbivand]

See https://mastodon.social/@EvenRouault/114037298138503303 ; unsure where to put this as versions are numeric, maybe a startup message?

[rsbivand]

Maybe add to sf_extSoftVersion?

[rsbivand]

As built against GDAL 3.11.0dev:

> sf::sf_extSoftVersion()
                  GEOS                   GDAL                 proj.4 
              "3.13.0" "3.11.0dev-26fc9a3fed"                "9.5.1" 
        GDAL_with_GEOS             USE_PROJ_H                   PROJ 
                "true"                 "true"                "9.5.1" 
> sf:::CPL_gdal_version()
[1] "3.11.0dev-26fc9a3fed"
> terra::gdal()
[1] "3.11.0dev-26fc9a3fed"

However:

> library(gdalraster)
GDAL 3.11.0dev-26fc9a3fed "Trans rights are human rights", released 2025/02/20, GEOS 3.13.0, PROJ 9.5.1
> gdalraster::gdal_version()
[1] "GDAL 3.11.0dev-26fc9a3fed \"Trans rights are human rights\", released 2025/02/20"
[2] "3110000"                                                                         
[3] "20250220"                                                                        
[4] "3.11.0dev-26fc9a3fed"

see USDAForestService/gdalraster#627.

And:

$ gdalinfo --version
GDAL 3.11.0dev-26fc9a3fed "Trans rights are human rights", released 2025/02/20
$ ogrinfo --version
GDAL 3.11.0dev-26fc9a3fed "Trans rights are human rights", released 2025/02/20

[rsbivand]

And:

> sf:::CPL_gdal_version("RELEASE_NAME")
[1] "3.11.0dev-26fc9a3fed"
> sf:::CPL_gdal_version("RELEASE_NICKNAME")
[1] "Trans rights are human rights"
> 
> sf:::CPL_gdal_version("--version")
[1] "GDAL 3.11.0dev-26fc9a3fed \"Trans rights are human rights\", released 2025/02/20"

So if we would like to expose the GDAL nickname, the code does that already.

[rsbivand]

This is useful:

> cat(sf:::CPL_gdal_version("BUILD_INFO"))
OGR_ENABLED=YES
CURL_ENABLED=YES
CURL_VERSION=8.9.1
GEOS_ENABLED=YES
GEOS_VERSION=3.13.0-CAPI-1.19.0
PROJ_BUILD_VERSION=9.5.1
PROJ_RUNTIME_VERSION=9.5.1
COMPILER=GCC 14.2.1 20250110 (Red Hat 14.2.1-7)

or

> sf:::CPL_gdal_version("BUILD_INFO") |>
 gsub("=", ":", x=_) |>
 strsplit("\\n") |>
 unlist() |>
 textConnection() |>
 read.dcf() |>
 as.data.frame()
  OGR_ENABLED CURL_ENABLED CURL_VERSION GEOS_ENABLED       GEOS_VERSION
1         YES          YES        8.9.1          YES 3.13.0-CAPI-1.19.0
  PROJ_BUILD_VERSION PROJ_RUNTIME_VERSION
1              9.5.1                9.5.1
                                COMPILER
1 GCC 14.2.1 20250110 (Red Hat 14.2.1-7)

After this, showConnections() indicates that the connection opened by textConnection() was closed.

Beyond that, https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/26fc9a3fedb57ab8b90604684fdd1fc4fb81c1f4/gcore/gdal_misc.cpp#L3006 shows that if correctly spelled values of pszRequest are not available, it defaults to "--version" also before OSGeo/gdal@a37a65e. I tried sf:::CPL_gdal_version("RELEASE_NICKNAME") with 3.10.1 with no problems.