[pdal] Proposal: Remove SQLite reader/writer for PDAL 2.0

[Howard Butler]

On second thought, we'll table the removal until 2.1 to allow a full
release cycle for everyone who might be impacted to catch up, but we will
still plan to remove these drivers. Again, if you are going to be impacted
by this change we would like to hear from you. We don't know of much use of
these drivers, and their continued maintenance burden does not seem worth
it given their limited use.

Howard

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 9:43 PM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

> All,
>
> I am proposing that we remove the SQLite drivers in the upcoming PDAL 2.0
> release. I do not think these drivers are seeing much use, they do not have
> a full featureset, and we are seeing some bugs creep in as PDAL interacts
> with other software libraries that are using SQLite (notably GDAL).
>
> The drivers have been their own little thing for quite a while and do not
> seem to have taken off as a useful container format for point cloud data.
> Given this experience, I would like to remove the burden of maintaining
> from the project unless there are strong objections and corresponding
> avenues of support to rally to keep it in the project.
>
> If you have an objection, or are using this capability, we would really
> like to hear about how you are using, and what it allows you to do that
> cannot be achieved with some other format or approach.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Howard
>
> https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/issues/2646
>
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