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

[Sean Gillies]

+1

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 9:33 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 - deprecate the raster drivers DODS, JPEG2000 (superseded per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
>
> Even
>
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Sean Gillies
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