On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/07/2016 10:33 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > > Thanks to the lovely mess created by the MySQL/MariaDB maintainers, > > MySQL support has been removed from GDAL & GRASS. > > > > If there is sufficient user demand, I may be persuaded to reinstate it > > at a later time after the MySQL/MariaDB maintainers have fixed their > > packages on all release architectures. > > Hi Bas, Thanks for your work on gdal so far. I didn't reply immediately as i thought it was better to give the maintainers some time to fix their packages. I don't use mysql/mariadb myself for geo, but since it is a widely used database and the geospatial capabilities have improved a lot over recent releases(see eg the presentation at FOSDEM [1], I think it would be a pity that we don't include it in gdal. Using ogr2ogr is actually one of the only sensible ways to put geospatial data into mysql. Kind Regards, Johan [1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/geo_mysql/
