Fiona 1.7.1 missing GeoPackage & FileGDB support?

[keithamoss]

Fiona 1.7.1 no longer lists GeoPackages or ESRI FileGDB as supported drivers. All other drivers are present and correct.

This is against GDAL 2.1.1 compile with ESRI FileGDB support.

1.7.0-post2 is fine.

root@c52baefe32b9:/app# fio --version
fio, version 1.7.0.post2
root@c52baefe32b9:/app# python
Python 2.7.12 (default, Aug  9 2016, 20:18:05)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import fiona
>>> print fiona.supported_drivers
{'ESRI Shapefile': 'raw', 'OpenFileGDB': 'r', 'SUA': 'r', 'ARCGEN': 'r', 'GeoJSON': 'rw', 'GPKG': 'rw', 'Idrisi': 'r', 'GPX': 'raw', 'SEGY': 'r', 'BNA': 'raw', 'FileGDB': 'raw', 'AeronavFAA': 'r', 'GPSTrackMaker': 'raw', 'DGN': 'raw', 'PCIDSK': 'r', 'MapInfo File': 'raw', 'DXF': 'raw'}

In 1.7.1 they're missing.

(venv-fiona-1.7.1) root@c52baefe32b9:/app# fio --version
fio, version 1.7.1
(venv-fiona-1.7.1) root@c52baefe32b9:/app# python
Python 2.7.12 (default, Aug  9 2016, 20:18:05)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import fiona
>>> print fiona.supported_drivers
{'ESRI Shapefile': 'raw', 'OpenFileGDB': 'r', 'SUA': 'r', 'ARCGEN': 'r', 'GeoJSON': 'rw', 'Idrisi': 'r', 'GPX': 'raw', 'SEGY': 'r', 'BNA': 'raw', 'AeronavFAA': 'r', 'GPSTrackMaker': 'raw', 'DGN': 'raw', 'PCIDSK': 'r', 'MapInfo File': 'raw', 'DXF': 'raw'}

[sgillies]

@keithamoss this would be a regression and I'll fix it in 1.7.2.

[sgillies]

@keithamoss nothing has changed in the code, there's no regression after all.

What has changed is that we're beginning to distribute binary wheels for Fiona with GDAL included, see the files tagged manylinux1 at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Fiona/1.7.1#downloads. The GDAL libs in these files don't include GPKG (an oversight) or Esri FileGDB (licensing restrictions). To get all the drivers you want on Linux, you need to do this

pip install -I fiona --no-binary fiona

This will pass over the binary wheels, fetch a source distribution (tar.gz), compile Fiona, and link it against your system's GDAL library that has all the drivers you need.

[keithamoss]

Great, thanks for letting us know Sean :)