[pdal] Replacing Arbiter with GDAL's VSI?

[Howard Butler]

> On Jan 29, 2025, at 5:15 PM, Norman Barker via pdal <pdal at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I would be very interested in such an experiment. I'll promise not to merge it right away ;)
Howard