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<p>Hi there,</p>
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<p>What if we could build and distribute VSI handler as plugins?</p>
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<p>I developed a VSI handler that depends on other software, so I would rather not build the GDAL main library with that dependency and let the user decided if they want to use the plugin or not.</p>
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<p>We would need to have a code on cpl_vsil.cpp similar to AutoLoadDrivers() from gdaldrivermanager.cpp to load vsi_XXX.{so,dll} dynamically.</p>
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<p>Would that be worth the effort? Any other cases where that could be useful?<br>
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<p>Regards.</p>
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<p>Ivan<br>
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