[Gdal-dev] Re: RFC 10

[Mateusz Loskot]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 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.

Frank,

OK

Cheers
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Mateusz Loskot
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