Justin Deoliveira ha scritto:
> Hi all,
> 
> Currently we don't have an extension module for gdal. We simply bundle 
> it at release time. I think it would be nice to have it work like the 
> other extensions do and activate it via profile.
> 
> Any objections to adding one?

None in principle, on the contrary, not sure it can be done in practice 
thought.

The reason we don't have a GDAL extension atm is that the image mosaic
plugin is carrying over the GDAL dependencies in core, and I think
it might not work properly if they are not around (but I'm not sure,
Simone/Daniele will correct me).

The reason I've not complained about this (because, yes, it dodged the
usual module graduation process, so there was actually something to
complain about) is basically because the GDAL support
lays dormant up until you install the native libraries and make
them available to the JVM. That's quite close to having to install
a normal extensions, just that you' don't have to modify GeoServer,
but the runtime instead.

Opinions?

Cheers
Andrea

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