<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Verdana;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#003399;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page Section1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple>
<div class=Section1>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#003399'>Greetings GDAL team,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#003399'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#003399'>The main GDAL download page <a
href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadingGdalBinaries">http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadingGdalBinaries</a>
contains a link to "minimalist" Windows executables for GDAL 1.6.0,
built by Frank W when GDAL 1.6.0 was released. Is there any possibility you
could offer similar binaries of 1.6.2 or the upcoming 1.6.3?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#003399'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#003399'>The only other source of up-to-date GDAL Windows binaries I know
of is <a href="http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk/">http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk/</a>,
maintained by Tamas S. These are great, but unfortunately I cannot use them
because they compile a GDAL driver or plug-in that links with xerces-c, and my
application loads GDAL in ArcGIS and MATLAB processes that also link with xerces-c
and there is a DLL conflict. This issue came up at GDAL 1.6.0 release time and
Frank agreed to rerelease the minimalist 1.6.0 binaries without the Xerces
dependency. See <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/31">http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/31</a>
for more information about that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#003399'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#003399'>It would be very helpful to me if you could release these minimalist
Windows executables with every GDAL bugfix release. I have been limping along
on 1.6.0, waiting for 1.7.0 (when, presumably, minimalist binaries will be
released again), but I just hit a SWIG issue that causes parts of OGR in 1.6.0
to be incompatible with ArcGIS 9.3. This issue was fixed in SWIG 1.3.39. Using
Tamas's 1.6.2 binaries built with SWIG 1.3.39, I verified that the problem is
resolved, but I can't use Tamas's binaries in my production code due to the
Xerces problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#003399'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#003399'>So, I am at the point that I will either have to start building minimalist
binaries 1.6.x myself or delay some new OGR-dependent functionality in my app until
1.7.0 minimalist binaries are released (assuming they will be). I can figure
out how to build myself but I'm hoping that by raising this Xerces issue again,
you might be convinced that minimalist binaries are important enough to release
them with every bugfix release. What do you think?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#003399'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#003399'>Thanks very much for your consideration,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#003399'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#003399'>Jason<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#003399'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>