[pdal] Replacing Arbiter with GDAL's VSI?

[Howard Butler]

> On Jan 31, 2025, at 3:01 PM, Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:
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>> On Jan 29, 2025, at 5:15 PM, Norman Barker via pdal <pdal at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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>> Would a good start be to add GDAL VSI in FileUtils for the open and close methods as an experiment? This would be harmless, if the prefix starts with /vsi then use GDAL and if not fall back to the existing access methods. I can give this a try and put up a PR.
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> I would be very interested in such an experiment. I'll promise not to merge it right away ;)
> Howard

A notice to let folks know that Norman has completed his implementation of GDAL's VSI in PDAL and it is now available for testing in the master branch. Thank you so much Norman!

Current development trajectory has PDAL 2.9 release happening expected next month.

Howard