[Gdal-dev] iODBC drivers for Mac OS X

[William Kyngesburye]

On Jan 10, 2006, at 1:33 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

>> Would it be possible to add an option to the PGEO driver to override
>> the ODBC driver, in case someone (on any platform even) doesn't use
>> an Access driver with the name you have in the source (ie on
>> different platforms and from different authors)?  (Or is it already
>> possible? and how?)
>
> I would be happy to support a "config" option for
> overriding the name of the ODBC driver to use for MDB
> files.  This could then be set via the environment or the
> --config commandline switch.
>
But, that would still be hardwired into the binary then?  I was  
thinking more like in the datasource option in the ogr commands, like  
is done for raw ODBC.  This makes it more flexible for an end-user  
that downloads a GDAL binary package, to be able to choose ODBC  
drivers at runtime.

Something like: either specify a .mdb directly like is is now, or as  
PGEO:dsn if one needs to use an alternate ODBC driver.  You could  
provide the full range of ODBC options, but I don't know if username  
is applicable, or geometry column, but password may be needed also  
(tho this Mac Access driver currently doesn't support password  
protected MDBs, others may).

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