[gdal-dev] Change SQLite default to -spatialite=yes?

[Even Rouault]

Le mercredi 19 mars 2014 09:13:29, Jukka Rahkonen a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Would it hurt bad if the SQLite/Spatialite driver would use -co
> spatialite=yes as a default? 

Yes, I guess that would make sense (when spatialite is available).

Another option would be to have a "spatialite" driver, that would just extend 
the sqlite driver (no real new code), but with a more meaningful name.

So :

ogr2ogr -f spatialite out.db in.shp

would, more or less, internally translate to 

ogr2ogr -f sqlite out.db in.shp -dsco spatialite=yes

The only drawback would be when opening: both the regular (FDO) sqlite driver 
and spatialite driver would have to open and query a bit the DB to figure out 
if it is the kind of SQLite DB they handle. But that shouldn't count for more 
than a few dozains of milliseconds for local files.

> Is there anybody really using the "regular"
> FDO type SQLite databases?
> 
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
> 
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