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

[Kurt Schwehr]

Being that it's been 8 days and there are no responses saying that vb6 and
bridge are needed in trunk, I suggest that they be removed.  Should that
turn out that there is a critical need, we can revert the deletion.

-kurt

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

> +1
>
>
> > On Aug 28, 2016, at 10:30 PM, Kurt Schwehr <schwehr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > +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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