[Gdal-dev] best approach for writing AI grids

[Gregory, Matthew]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Option (3) might be port the gio driver to current GDAL, 
> possibly as a runtime loaded driver.  I can't think of any 
> reason it would be a problem to get the old driver working 
> with current GDAL - assuming you are comfortable building 
> GDAL yourself and doing just a bit of build-hacking yourself.

Thanks Frank, 

A great suggestion.  I have a naïve follow-up question.  You mention loading the GIO driver at runtime.  Is this equivalent to:

--
GDALDriverManager* t = GetGDALDriverManager();
GDALDriver* d = t->GetDriverByName("GIO");
t->RegisterDriver(d);
--

If not, can you explain or point me to documentation which explains loading run-time drivers?

thanks, matt