Damn it. Can't tell a GTM from a GMT. Sorry. -----Original Message----- From: Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 8:08 PM To: Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís <jl...@ualg.pt>; gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Motion (V2): remove and deprecate a few drivers
Le 22/03/2022 à 20:23, Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís a écrit : > Even, > > Please the vector GMT driver is not to be removed It is not. The commit you refer to removes the GTM (GPS Track Maker) driver. > > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/5269/commits/f89bccc10e00ef57312165 > f5ee11f5ee1f1dddc3 > > it's very much used in GMT. We talked about this before (sorry didn't keep > references of it). > What is to be deprecated is the old netCDF GMT grid format, but not > the vector one I'm in line with that. > (whose implementation was paid for). I assume most GDAL drivers, including those in that batch of removal, have been paid for at some point. That's not a criterion by itself to keep them 15 years after if no one is willing to keep up with their overhead and can justify they are still relevant. > > Cheers > > Joaquim > > -----Original Message----- > From: gdal-dev <gdal-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Even > Rouault > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 6:58 PM > To: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Motion (V2): remove and deprecate a few > drivers > > Hi, > > I'd appreciate if I could get some approval of > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/5269 (it'll need some trivial adjustment > to be applied due to conflicts) that implements the below decision (for some > reason people tend to be more generous in adding emojis to pull requests that > add new features than ones that remove code). > > The removal of the OpenDAP/DODS drivers is not included in that PR since > there was apparently some interest in it > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/5173, but that failed to materialize > with concrete elements to be able to support them, so I believe they will > ultimately go to the rm -rf road too. > > Even > > Le 04/03/2021 à 17:32, Even Rouault a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> Updating my yesterday motion with the feedback received (only second >> bullet updated with a more restricted set of drivers) >> >> Motion: >> >> - remove the vector drivers BNA, AeronavFAA, HTF, OpenAir, SEGUKOOA, >> SEGY, SUA, XPlane and raster drivers BPG, E00GRID, EPSILON, >> IGNFHeightASCIIGrid, NTv1. They have all been authored by myself and >> I'm not aware of them having been much used or being still in use. >> Implemented in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/3373. They (driver >> code, doc and tests) have been moved to the >> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers >> >> - deprecate the raster drivers DODS, JPEG2000 (superseded per >> JP2OpenJPEG), JPEGLS, MG4LIDAR, FUJIBAS, IDA, INGR, ZMAP and vector >> driver ARCGEN, ArcObjects, CLOUDANT, COUCHDB, DB2, DODS, FME, >> GEOMEDIA, GTM, INGRES, MONGODB (superserded per MongoDBV3), REC, WALK >> . They will now be disabled at runtime by default, with an explicit >> error message when they are triggered, unless the >> GDAL_ENABLE_DEPRECATED_DRIVER_{drivername} >> configuration option is set to YES, and will be removed in GDAL 3.5. >> Implemented in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/3505 >> >> Starting with my +1 >> >> Even >> > -- > http://www.spatialys.com > My software is free, but my time generally not. > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- http://www.spatialys.com My software is free, but my time generally not. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
