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

[Kurt Schwehr]

+1 for removing from trunk head if nobody speaks up.

On Sunday, August 28, 2016, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:

> 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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