Hi Ivan, Fine, that makes sense. So, experience and technical reasons qualify one driver to be up or down in the list. Thanks for the response.
-- Jorge Arevalo Freelance developer http://www.krop.com/jorgearevalo http://about.me/jorgeas80 Enviado con Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) El sábado 15 de junio de 2013 a las 13:09, Ivan Lucena escribió: > Hi Jorge > > "Arbitrariness is a term given to choices and actions > subject to individual will, judgment or preference, based > solely upon an individual's opinion or discretion." > Wikipedia > > That's sounds about right. > > There are several different cases and reason for a driver > be moved up or down on that list. For example, if a > format is not safely identified, if it doesn't have a MIME > header, and if we have cases where it catches somebody > else files, we move it down on the list. > > > -------Original Message------- > > From: Jorge Arévalo <[email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected])> > > To: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > Subject: [gdal-dev] GDAL formats list order > > Sent: Jun 14 '13 18:56 > > > > Hello, > > > > I read at > > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GDAL20Changes that > GDAL formats, when calling gdalinfo --formats, "are > returned in a meaningful order - the order they are tried - > which is important to know sometimes". > > > > I see at > > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/tags/1.10.0/gdal/frmts/ > gdalallregister.cpp several calls to GDALRegister_X, in > what looks like an arbitrary order to me. Seems to have > "groups". Apart from that, older drivers first? > > > > Is there any reason to choose that order? > > > > Many thanks in advance, > > > > -- > > Jorge Arevalo > > Freelance developer > > > > http://www.krop.com/jorgearevalo > > http://about.me/jorgeas80 > > > > Enviado con Sparrow > > (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) > > > _____________________________________________ > __ > > gdal-dev mailing list > > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
