[gdal-dev] Extended tab/mrr driver questions

[Nyall Dawson]

Hi list,

I just read this comment on the Pitney Bowes pull request regarding
extended tab/mrr support:

"After discussing with the GDAL PSC, we will be splitting this into
two separate PRs for the two drivers. We will also be following the
plugin model for both EFAL and MRR format driver."
(https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/1882#issuecomment-563807100)

Can anyone from gdal psc elaborate on this? Why were they advised to
follow the plugin model instead of doing the "right thing" and
extending the existing tab driver?

Nyall