Hi, I am curious how hard it would be to build the core GDAL/OGR libs, then have most formats created as driver plugins, instead of directly linked from the main libs?
Reason: at Homebrew (and in other situations) every time one of the linked libs is updated then GDAL/OGR has to be rebuilt as well. An ideal situation is where the core libs do not need rebuilt except upon patches or updates to non-format-specific portions of the code base. Then, format plugins are rebuilt as necessary, relative to their external dependencies; and, all plugins rebuilt when a core libs update requires it. Currently I find compiling driver plugins tedious, at least for 1.x versions, has this changed with 2.x versions? Is there an easier way to compile a format as a .so driver plugin than the following 'manual' example, or am I just doing it in a tedious manner? https://github.com/OSGeo/homebrew-osgeo4mac/blob/master/Formula/gdal-sosi.rb Regards, Larry Shaffer Dakota Cartography Black Hills, South Dakota
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