Add support for users to add their own additional drivers
Feature description
Add support for users to add their own additional drivers to gdal.
Use cases
Specifically, I would like to add in the ESRI FileGDB Driver which would allow for write operations on geodatabases. Instead of asking you to additionally add and further maintain this driver yourself, if you could add the ability for us to roll our own drivers that would be great.
Benefits
Allows for users to install their own additional drivers on top of GDAL.
Requirements
Users able to rebuild/configure GDAL with drivers that they have added additionally (ability to call the configure script and include additional arguments like below:
me/users:
configure ARGS="--with-fgdb=${FILEGDB_INSTALL}
you:
./configure \
...
(ARGS)
Currently you delete the source code for gdal during your build so we don't have ability to call configure to rebuild gdal with our drivers at all.
Links / references
(List of links or references that support this feature)
Definition of Done
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Feature has been implemented or alternative provided