[gdal-dev] Motion (V2): remove and deprecate a few drivers

[Howard Butler]

> On Mar 4, 2021, at 10:32 AM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Updating my yesterday motion with the feedback received (only second bullet updated with a more restricted set of drivers)
> 
> Motion:
> 
> - 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 - deprecate the raster drivers DODS, JPEG2000 (superseded per JP2OpenJPEG), JPEGLS, MG4LIDAR, FUJIBAS, IDA, INGR, ZMAP and vector driver ARCGEN, ArcObjects, CLOUDANT, COUCHDB, DB2, DODS, FME, GEOMEDIA, GTM, INGRES, MONGODB (superserded per MongoDBV3), REC, WALK . They will now be disabled at runtime by default, with an explicit error message when they are triggered, 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

+1

Howard