<div dir="ltr">Being that it's been 8 days and there are no responses saying that vb6 and bridge are needed in trunk, I suggest that they be removed. Should that turn out that there is a critical need, we can revert the deletion.<div><br></div><div>-kurt</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Howard Butler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:howard@hobu.co" target="_blank">howard@hobu.co</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">+1<br>
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> On Aug 28, 2016, at 10:30 PM, Kurt Schwehr <<a href="mailto:schwehr@gmail.com">schwehr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> +1 for removing from trunk head if nobody speaks up.<br>
><br>
> On Sunday, August 28, 2016, Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> We have the bridge and vb6 directories in the source tree that are probably no<br>
> longer used by anyone (I don't recall any tickets or questions in recent years<br>
> regarding those 2 topics), but I would be interested in hearing opinions in<br>
> case someone still uses them (they are not part of default build scripts, so<br>
> there's a chance they might even not build currently)<br>
><br>
> The only description of what "bridge" is I could find is :<br>
> <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/1999-May/002942.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>pipermail/gdal-dev/1999-May/<wbr>002942.html</a> , so basically<br>
> it is a way of using the GDAL API through dlopen()/GetProcAddress()<br>
> mechanisms. It seems this was developed primarily for the LIMP software, but<br>
> that one doesn't seem to be around anymore.<br>
><br>
> Regarding VB6 bindings, of course VB6 itself is completely obsolete and no<br>
> longer available at Microsoft. From<br>
> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Visual_Basic</a>, seems that legacy VB6 applications<br>
> could perhaps still run in recent Windows versions (not completely clear<br>
> however)<br>
><br>
> Even<br>
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