On mercredi 8 mars 2017 22:37:42 CET Luis Ressel wrote: > On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 21:28:34 +0100 > > Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> wrote: > > The relevant piece of code is in > > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/trunk/gdal/frmts/vrt/vrtdataset.cpp#L73 > > 9 > > > > If you look a bit below in > > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/trunk/gdal/frmts/vrt/vrtdataset.cpp#L81 > > 4 > > there's an open option ROOT_PATH that could be set to b/ to get the > > behaviour you wish. > > Thanks for the hint! Adjusting the ROOT_PATH is an acceptable solution > in my use case. > > Interestingly, GDAL used to handle symlinks to VRTs in the way I'd > expected, but this was changed back in 2013 (commit 66b3918df in the > git repository, committed by you).
Looking at the commit message, it appears that this change was contributed by someone else from https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/4999 But my intuition is that the current behaviour is more natural than the previous one (ie the one you'd expect). But obviously different people have different use cases. > > Regards, > Luis Ressel -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com
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