[gdal-dev] Important - GDAL 1.7.0 - Imagine/HFA Driver Produces Corrupt Files

[Norman Vine]

On Feb 5, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Howard Butler wrote:

>
> On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Ivan has discovered that GDAL 1.7.0 is producing HFA files that are
>> corrupt - that is they are only readable with GDAL.  Imagine and  
>> older
>> versions of ArcGIS fail to read them.

....

>> I consider this problem very serious, and the longer that GDAL 1.7.0
>> is in use the more of these corrupt Imagine files will be produced  
>> and
>> cause problems for the world.

...

> +1.  Except for BigTIFF, the HFA driver is one of the consistent  
> large file drivers we have.  Instead of marking it deprecated, I  
> think we should retract the release (remove it from  
> download.osgeo.org) and immediately issue 1.7.1 RC1 today.

+1 on retracting the release

There are enough poorly formatted images in the wild already

Cheers

Norman
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