On mercredi 28 mars 2018 15:05:34 CEST Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > 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 ?
No. Identification per file content is still the primary identification method. There are a few drivers where this is not possible due to the file format (absence of header with unambiguous signature), and thus extension is used as a fallback. Even -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
