<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 6:55 PM Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I'm
-1 on this motion as it stands. There are a quite a few
formats that I think we ought to continue to support for
archival purposes indefinitely including FIT, JDEM, GMT,
DOQ1/2, LAN, MFF, NDF, SDTS, SGI, XPM, and TIGER. I am
prepared to be listed as supporting maintainer for these
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<p>Those formats were aimed for the runtime deprecation mechanism.
The idea was to get ~ 1 year feedback period to see if people
really need that nowadays, which I strongly doubt about. There are
Docker images of older GDAL versions available for people that
would still need to access such archives. I believe I tried to
make previously the point that the issue wasn't the individual
maintenance of those formats, but the weight they had to the whole
for little benefit to the majority of users & developers.<br>
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<p>Are you OK at least with the removal of the drivers I mentioned
in the first bullet of the motion ? (the ones of <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/3373" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/3373</a>).
I'm not willing to support them any longer (and I'm not asking
anyone to step up for that!)<br>
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</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Even,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I'm ok with the removal list. I do not really agree with the deprecating the formats I listed. I feel like the deprecate and wait for useful feedback is more appropriate to formats that are hard to support now (like those depending on external libraries) and that the main kind of feedback to be sought would be someone willing to be responsible for them.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Best regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Frank</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="monospace">---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------<br>I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, <a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com" target="_blank">warmerdam@pobox.com</a><br>light and sound - activate the windows | +1 650-701-7823<br>and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer</font></div></div></div></div></div></div>