[QGIS-Developer] GDAL processing algorithms issues due the default output layer extensions weirdly changed

[Nyall Dawson]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 at 08:58, Andrea Giudiceandrea via QGIS-Developer
<qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> Hi developers,
> various QGIS users have reported during the latest months (mostly since
> September 2023, and a couple also back in July 2023) on various channels
> a strange issue which makes the GDAL processing algorithms to fail when
> the temporary output is set.
>
> Looking at the provided processing logs, it turns out that the issue is
> due to the fact that the default output vector layer extension was set
> to .xtf "Interlis 2" (instead of the default .gpkg "GeoPackage") or that
> the default output raster layer extension was set to .nc "NetCDF"
> (instead of the default .tif "GeoTIFF").
>
> The weird think is that all the users affected by the issue have
> reported that they had not deliberately changed these settings.

Hmm, I wonder if it's a plugin changing this setting. I've definitely
seen plugins before doing unfriendly things like this...

Nyall