Fwd: Re: [gdal-dev] FWTools and GDAL 1.7.0

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

Wow, what a lot of discussion.

 From my perspective, I'm pleased with Tamas' provided binaries as a source
for developers who want a GDAL SDK for a particular compiler version and
choice of win32/win64.

I like Jurgen's idea of building a stock GDAL binaries package with an
installer (similar to FWTools) from OSGeo4W packages.

Like some others, I'm also confused by the "correct" way of providing
python binaries.  I'm inclined to provide an included python in a self
installer similar to FWTools, but I'd be pleased if the hardcore
Pythonistas can get the magic ways of producing python binaries for any
Python version working.

Is there someone that wants to take on producing official GDAL binaries
from OSGeo4W with a self installer sort of similar to FWTools, likely
using the mechanism Jurgen described?  I'm interested, but interest hasn't
turned into action over quite a few months of interest.

Best regards,
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