[fdo-internals] FDO connect by library

[Jason Birch]

I'm surprised that this is being done with no discussion.

Guessing it would be testing to see if the provider name ends with .dll .so?
 Overloading the semantics of the existing CreateConnection feels a bit
sloppy to me.

Jason

On 6 August 2010 11:31, Brent Robinson wrote:

>  Hi,
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> On Monday, a change will be made to the FDO Connection Manager to allow
> creating connections from providers that are not registered in
> providers.xml. CreateConnection() will now accept a library file name, in
> which case the library will be loaded and the connection retrieved directly
> from it. The change will be made to the trunk and will be under
> http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo/ticket/674. There will be no change to existing
> functionality; CreateConnection() will still accept names of registered
> providers.
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> Brent.
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