[gdal-dev] Multiple extensions in GDAL_DMD_EXTENSION ?

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 20 February 2013 18:38, Ari Jolma <ari.jolma at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just the last few days I've worked on the support in the GUI for using the
> WMS and WFS drivers in GDAL. For WMS I made a completely new dialog box but
> for the WFS I added it into the Open vector data dialog - it already had
> support for PostGIS data so non-filesystem datasource was not a completely
> new concept. What I did earlier was to write the OGR driver connection
> strings as templates so that they can be used to create simple a dialog box
> to ask the basic data from the user - this seems to work quite nicely.

Ari,

"strings as templates"...you've done something very similar to what I suggested.

> So, maybe what I want to say is that the file extension is just a part of
> the issue. GDAL can get data from many other sources than local filesystem -
> and creating a unified easy to use GUI for all those may be more interesting
> and useful.

The rant was not only about file extension, but about any GUI directly
driven by output produced by --format[s].

Best regards,
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Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net