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<p>Hi Vincent,</p>
<p>Positive feedback is also appreciated :-)</p>
<p>Even</p>
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cite="mid:66073f73-ba4a-48a6-8a13-c2557ebc89b4@spatialys.com">Hi,
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I'd like to have a broader feedback of the community on <a
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href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/14763"
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. Please read it in detail. In practice, the main backwards
incompatibility would be the point 1 I mention in the PR text,
that is that for current users of gdal.Open(dsname), they would
now get vector datasets opened in addition to raster ones. While
I see this is as a long term benefit, at least one user (<a
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href="https://github.com/ubarsc/rios/pull/192"
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had to work around it since they expected gdal.Open() to fail on
vector datasets. The workaround being to use gdal.OpenEx(dsname,
gdal.OF_RASTER) that will work before and after the PR, or if
targeting only post PR state, gdal.Open(dsname, gdal.OF_RASTER)
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PR 14763 would be potential material for a GDAL 4 if that did
occur, but I don't know if it is desirable and even if it was, I
don't think it would happen in a short or medium term (mostly
because the GDAL dev community is too small to be able to gather
a significant set of backwards incompatible change in a
reasonable period of time, while not blocking features to be
released at a reasonable frequency). So we're more in a
situation where we land a few backwards incompatible change each
(non bugfix) release. <br>
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Even <br>
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Hi Even,<br>
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(I doubted whether to reply because it was a bit unclear to me if
you only wanted people with concerns to reply, or also people who
don't see any issue with the proposed change.)<br>
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We (as quite heavy users of gdal in our internal python software)
do not see any issues with this proposal for us, and would in fact
welcome this change because it will reduce ambiguity between the 2
possible ways to open raster datasets.<br>
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Thanks for asking feedback,<br>
Vincent.
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