[gdal-dev] Motion: remove and deprecate a few drivers

[Even Rouault]

Le 03/03/2021 à 21:20, Ivan Lucena a écrit :
> Even,
>
> Is the INGR driver for Integraph raster install needed?
>
> It was developed when the format was already deprecated.
>
> It was supposed to read old files and there was some old hardware, 
> scanner, spitting out in that file format.


I'll add it to the list of deprecated drivers then.


Even


>
> Regards,
>
> Ivan
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> *From:* gdal-dev <gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Even 
> Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 3, 2021 3:07 PM
> *To:* Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís <jluis at ualg.pt>; 
> gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [gdal-dev] Motion: remove and deprecate a few drivers
> OK, I amend my motion to keep GS7BG as non-deprecated for now. Let's
> mark GSAG and GSBG as deprecated and see if that triggers reactions once
> this is in the wild.
>
> Le 03/03/2021 à 20:55, Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís a écrit :
> >> Is the GSAG format really used ?
> > What can I say. Because it's a simple format I used to have 
> colleagues that used it for I/O of their codes and not rarely it ended 
> up in my hands. But can't honestly say it's much used.
> >
> >
> >> Which one(s) are proposed by default as output of current Surfer 
> versions ?
> > GS7BG. In fact GMT can read the simple variations (without 
> breaklines) of this somewhat complicated format
> >
> >
> >> Can't Surfer export to other formats already handled by GDAL ?
> > Yes, some. Nc and ArcInfo ascii at least
> >
> >
> >
> > Le 03/03/2021 à 20:02, Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís a écrit :
> >> Even,
> >>
> >> May you reconsider the Golden Software drivers --- GS7BG, GSAG, 
> GSBG --- ?
> >> GMT can read/write GSBG, but specially GS7BG, besides Surfer, GDAL 
> is the only one that I know that is able to read this format. Maybe 
> not in this list but there are still many people who use Golden 
> software grid formats.
> >>
> >> Joaquim
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: gdal-dev <gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Even 
> Rouault
> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 6:49 PM
> >> To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> >> Subject: [gdal-dev] Motion: remove and deprecate a few drivers
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Following the discussions of past weeks, I motion to:
> >>
> >> - remove the vector drivers BNA, AeronavFAA, HTF, OpenAir, 
> SEGUKOOA, SEGY, SUA, XPlane and raster drivers BPG, E00GRID, EPSILON, 
> IGNFHeightASCIIGrid, NTv1. They have all been authored by myself and 
> I'm not aware of them having been much used or being still in use.
> >> Implemented in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/3373 
> <https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/3373>. They (driver code, doc and 
> tests) have been moved to the 
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers 
> <https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers>
> >>
> >> - deprecate the raster drivers DODS, FIT, GS7BG, GSAG, GSBG, JDEM, 
> JPEG2000, JPEGLS, MG4LIDAR, GMT, DOQ1, DOQ2, FUJIBAS, IDA, LAN, MFF, 
> NDF, SDTS, SGI, XPM, ZMAP and vector driver ARCGEN, ArcObjects, 
> CLOUDANT, COUCHDB, DB2, DODS, FME, GEOMEDIA, GTM, INGRES, MONGODB, 
> REC, SDTDS, TIGER, WALK. They will now be disabled at runtime by 
> default, unless the GDAL_ENABLE_DEPRECATED_DRIVER_{drivername}
> >> configuration option is set to YES, and will be removed in GDAL 3.5.
> >> Implemented in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/3505 
> <https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/3505>
> >>
> >> Starting with my +1
> >>
> >> Even
> >>
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