[Gdal-dev] Re: RFC 10

[Frank Warmerdam]

Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> I'm not clear on why RFC 10 couldn't be altered to provide a standard
>> mechanism to encode parameters into the datasource name and go from there.
>> The issue of applications which don't know the format apriori is not new.
> 
> I think it might be not easy to find common syntax used across all
> drivers. For example, if we decided to delimit options with @, perhaps
> there are some drivers that use @ token in its native connection string.
> 
> IMO, options interface should be defined as common to all drivers, but
> not using syntax specific to a driver.

Mateusz,

Yes, that was my intent.  To "package" lists of options in a standard way
with well understood escaping and quoting rules.  A mechanism that could
be applied to new drivers, and in some hopefully not-too-disruptive fashion
applied to old drivers with options in the datasource name.

Best regards,
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