[Gdal-dev] opening dataset of unknown type

[Frank Warmerdam]

Tyler Mitchell wrote:
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>>The short answer, there is no way.
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>>The longer answer is that I have committed changes in the
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> gdal/pymoddirectory
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>>so that the driver found in ogr.Open() can be captured somewhat like in C
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>>C++.
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> Great Frank!  Thank you very much for implementing it.  I'm trying it on
> windows, but appears that I need a new _gdal.dll I guess.  Do I need one
> built from current CVS?   I'll try to pull one together via Cygwin.

Tyler,

Right, you need to rebuild _gdal.dll from CVS.

Good luck,

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