[Gdal-dev] format plugins

[William Kyngesburye]

How simple is it to build formats as GDAL plugins instead of embedded  
in the main library? (like the GRASS plugin)

I would like to build some of the existing problematic formats as  
plugins, so they are more easily added to a binary distribution.   
This would inlcude formats with restrictive licenses like MrSID, and  
others with problematic support on different versions of an OS (ie  
MrSID, DODS, ECW, other C++-based on Mac OS X Panther vs Tiger).

I don't need all the gorey details of the driver API and implementing  
it, since the formats exist, I just need the configure/make part.

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