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

[Frank Warmerdam]

Even,

I'm -1 on this motion as it stands.  There are a quite a few formats that I
think we ought to continue to support for archival purposes
indefinitely including FIT, JDEM, GMT, DOQ1/2, LAN, MFF, NDF, SDTS, SGI,
XPM, and TIGER.  I am prepared to be listed as supporting maintainer for
these drivers.

Best regards,
Frank


On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 1:49 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> 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. They (driver
> code, doc and tests) have been moved to the
> 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
>
> Starting with my +1
>
> Even
>
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