[GRASS-dev] prefer GeoPackage over Shapefile

[Even Rouault]

On mercredi 18 octobre 2017 12:28:36 CEST Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to submit following commit to GRASS GIS - master
> 
> Index: vector/v.out.ogr/args.c
> ===================================================================
> --- vector/v.out.ogr/args.c (revision 71566)
> +++ vector/v.out.ogr/args.c (working copy)
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
>      options->format->type = TYPE_STRING;
>      options->format->required = YES;
>      options->format->multiple = NO;
> -    options->format->answer = "ESRI_Shapefile";
> +    options->format->answer = "DPKG";
>      options->format->options = OGR_list_write_drivers();
>      options->format->description = _("Data format to write");
> 
> 
> 
> any objections?
> 

I'm not a GRASS dev, but do I have a major objection... There's a typo in your 
patch ;-) Should be GPKG

Joke aside, the SQLite dependency in GDAL builds is optional, so in theory you 
could have a GDAL build without SQLite/GPKG support. But this is really 
unlikely in practice as no sane packager would do that.  Perhaps checking if 
the GPKG driver is there would be safer, and if not fallback to good old 
shapefile.

Even


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