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

[Frank Warmerdam]

+1


On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:40 AM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

>
>
> > 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 - deprecate the raster drivers DODS, JPEG2000 (superseded per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
>
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