Proprietary Plugins

[hobu]

Comment:

GDAL 3.9 has made it much easier to manage and build its drivers as plugins through RFC 96. I'm wondering what the policy of the recipe is for adding subpackages that provide support for proprietary formats that have build.sh-fetchable SDKs.

MrSID

Extensis (the holding company that manages what's left of LizardTech/MrSID) has begun making all of the SDKs available at a curl-fetchable location.

Oracle

Oracle InstantClient SDK is available via curl-fetchable locations.

My team has been self-managing a mirror of the GDAL feedstock to provide these to our systems. I would volunteer to keep them up to date here instead if this is something that would be allowed.

[ocefpaf]

We usually try to not ship non-OSS and/or things that we cannot build from source. There are exceptions though. However, the main issue is if we are allowed to re-distribute these SDKs. Most of the time they are for personal use and it is not allowed to add them in a package manager. That is b/c upstream wants some control over who is getting their stuff. Conda-forte would be 1 data point there that could mean multiple users.