[Gdal-dev] RFC 12: Improved File Management

[Ari Jolma]

Daniel Morissette kirjoitti:
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>> I think this RFC with the "fast identify" allow us tool developers to 
>> build GUIs that let the users not to worry about those details - this 
>> is in my opinion a good thing, they just want to know which raster 
>> layers are available in a given data source. This is similar to what 
>> already can be done with OGR.
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> I don't think this RFC relates to knowing which layers are part of a 
> dataset, my understanding is that it's just intended to tell the 
> caller which files constitute a dataset in case it needs to be zipped 
> up or copied to a new location, etc.
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> I didn't think OGR already had a similar GetFileList() and family of 
> methods. Did I miss that addition?

No it doesn't have. I was thinking more what the fast format 
identification functionality (RFC 11) offers.

Ari

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> Daniel


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