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

[Jeff McKenna]

+1

(I think we should also list the 3.5.0 milestone at 
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/milestones so packagers/community can make 
adjustments in time for that date)

-jeff



On 2021-03-03 2:48 p.m., Even Rouault 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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