[gdal-dev] Removing bridge/ and vb6/ from source tree ?

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

We have the bridge and vb6 directories in the source tree that are probably no 
longer used by anyone (I don't recall any tickets or questions in recent years 
regarding those 2 topics), but I would be interested in hearing opinions in 
case someone still uses them (they are not part of default build scripts, so 
there's a chance they might even not build currently)

The only description of what "bridge" is I could find is : 
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/1999-May/002942.html , so basically 
it is a way of using the GDAL API through dlopen()/GetProcAddress() 
mechanisms. It seems this was developed primarily for the LIMP software, but 
that one doesn't seem to be around anymore.

Regarding VB6 bindings, of course VB6 itself is completely obsolete and no 
longer available at Microsoft. From 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic, seems that legacy VB6 applications 
could perhaps still run in recent Windows versions (not completely clear 
however)

Even

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