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

[Even Rouault]

Le 04/03/2021 à 17:32, Even Rouault a écrit :
> 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 - deprecate the raster drivers DODS, JPEG2000 (superseded per 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
I declare this motion passed with +1 from PSC members HowardB, FrankW, 
JukkaR, SeanG, KurtS, DanielM and myself
>
> Even
>
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