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

[Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís]

Damn it. Can't tell a GTM from a GMT. Sorry. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 8:08 PM
To: Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís <jluis at ualg.pt>; gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Motion (V2): remove and deprecate a few drivers


Le 22/03/2022 à 20:23, Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís a écrit :
> Even,
>
> Please the vector GMT driver is not to be removed
It is not. The commit you refer to removes the GTM (GPS Track Maker) driver.
>
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/5269/commits/f89bccc10e00ef57312165
> f5ee11f5ee1f1dddc3
>
> it's very much used in GMT. We talked about this before (sorry didn't keep references of it).
> What is to be deprecated is the old netCDF GMT grid format, but not 
> the vector one
I'm in line with that.
> (whose implementation was paid for).
I assume most GDAL drivers, including those in that batch of removal, have been paid for at some point. That's not a criterion by itself to keep them 15 years after if no one is willing to keep up with their overhead and can justify they are still relevant.
>
> Cheers
>
> Joaquim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gdal-dev <gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Even 
> Rouault
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 6:58 PM
> To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Motion (V2): remove and deprecate a few 
> drivers
>
> 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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