Ticket #488 (assigned enhancement)

Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

OGR needs same driver metadata mechanism as GDAL

Reported by: mcoletti@lychnobite.org Assigned to: warmerdam (accepted)
Priority: high Milestone:
Component: OGR_SF Version: unspecified
Severity: minor Keywords:
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Description 

GDAL driver metadata is handy to get long and short names for drivers; it's also
nice to get filename extensions used to populate open file dialogs.  OGR current
doesn't have such a mechanism, and probably could benefit from a similar
implementation.

Change History

02/11/04 14:02:07 changed by warmerdam 

Agreed.

11/02/05 18:20:49 changed by mcoletti@lychnobite.org 

So it's been over a year and a half since I added this; any chance that this is
going to get added anytime Real Soon Now?  GetInfo() is such a tease; it just
returns NULL.

11/03/05 11:27:47 changed by warmerdam 

Mark,

This would be my "grand unification" of GDAL and OGR and there is no 
sign of it happening in the near future.