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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Even,</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" 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
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href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/3373">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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