On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Even Rouault wrote:
The identification logic of drivers is supposed to operate fast (extension based, or on the content of the first kilobyte of the header),
If I understand correctly Frank Warmerdam did not favour extension based file identification:
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2013-February/035516.html GDAL is based on the idea that file formats are discovered by inspecting file contents rather than based on extension and I don't want to make it too easy for applications to ignore this principle and revert to extensions. I have therefore tried to avoid using extension to identify file type. Has thinking on this moved on in the last five years ? -- Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge, UK [email protected] _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
