Re: [gdal-dev] Killing useless write side of drivers

2025-01-20 Thread Kurt Schwehr via gdal-dev
I think I'm just rephrasing Even and Howard... I am strongly in favor of removing write for any driver on that list where nobody has shown up to actively support the formats' write support. The one exception would be if there is a feature in a format that isn't provided by any other of the common

Re: [gdal-dev] Killing useless write side of drivers

2025-01-20 Thread Howard Butler via gdal-dev
> On Jan 16, 2025, at 10:48 AM, Even Rouault via gdal-dev > wrote: > > Hi, > > I strongly suspect a number of drivers are hardly used, in particular their > write/edition side > > My list of candidate victims for removal (of the write side) is at > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12

Re: [gdal-dev] Killing useless write side of drivers

2025-01-19 Thread Even Rouault via gdal-dev
Andrew, | one might think that the purpose of GDAL was to allow conversion between geospatial data formats. The ones that are still of use for someone I would prefer it if that was extended to include other purposes, rather than actually removing that as a significant purpose of GDAL. Sorr

Re: [gdal-dev] Killing useless write side of drivers

2025-01-19 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via gdal-dev
On Thu, 16 Jan 2025, Even Rouault via gdal-dev wrote: I strongly suspect a number of drivers are hardly used, in particular their write/edition side My list of candidate victims for removal (of the write side) is at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12yk0p8rRK4rAYO_VwXboatWkiILAjE2Cepu32

[gdal-dev] Killing useless write side of drivers

2025-01-16 Thread Even Rouault via gdal-dev
Hi, I strongly suspect a number of drivers are hardly used, in particular their write/edition side My list of candidate victims for removal (of the write side) is at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12yk0p8rRK4rAYO_VwXboatWkiILAjE2Cepu32lsHhM8/edit?gid=0#gid=0 . Please add your potenti