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

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

I'd appreciate if I could get some approval of 
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/5269 (it'll need some trivial 
adjustment to be applied due to conflicts) that implements the below 
decision (for some reason people tend to be more generous in adding 
emojis to pull requests that add new features than ones that remove code).

The removal of the OpenDAP/DODS drivers is not included in that PR since 
there was apparently some interest in it 
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/5173, but that failed to 
materialize with concrete elements to be able to support them, so I 
believe they will ultimately go to the rm -rf road too.

Even

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 - deprecate the raster drivers DODS, JPEG2000 (superseded per 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