[Gdal-dev] gdal 1.4.1 python 2.4 windows executables

[Frank Warmerdam]

Nate Jennings wrote:
> Maybe I should ask the question like this.
> 
>  >From my perusing of the threads, various websites, and those who know 
> alot more about building various exe's from source, is it fair to say 
> that gdal builds for current versions of Python (i.e. will there be an 
> installable .exe version of gdal for Python 2.4) are expected to come 
> out soon after new releases of GDAL?  Does one of the primary developers 
> for GDAL, the FWTools community, etc do this? and does it get posted 
> here?  Are there typical time frames for this?

Nate,

Briefly responding:

  1) Previously the GDAL project did *not* produce binaries to correspond with
     releases.  We are starting work on this, but it does not currently
     include builds with Python.

  2) FWTools is not release oriented - it is tied to the development trunk, and
     is only produced for one Python version - usually not the most recent. It
     is not a product of the GDAL project, but rather a thing of my own.  With
     very little time to work on it, I am generally not very receptive to "won't
     you build it with my version of python/c++ compiler/etc".

  3) I think Mateusz has been recently looking into building GDAL for win32
     with Python 2.4.  Perhaps he will provide a status update, and this will
     make it into the wiki for others who want to build it.

  4) Howard has indicate an interest in producing a python-gdal package
     installer for win32.  This might be for Python 2.4, but will only
     happen as his time and interest permit.

I am interested in making "core binaries" for win32 part of the funded
GDAL maintainer workload, but it isn't at all clear that this will include
Python packages.

Best regards,
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