<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 5, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Howard Butler wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Folks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ivan has discovered that GDAL 1.7.0 is producing HFA files that are<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">corrupt - that is they are only readable with GDAL. Imagine and older<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">versions of ArcGIS fail to read them. </blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>....</div></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">I consider this problem very serious, and the longer that GDAL 1.7.0<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">is in use the more of these corrupt Imagine files will be produced and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">cause problems for the world.</blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div>...</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>+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. </div></blockquote><br></div><div>+1 on retracting the release</div><div><br></div><div>There are enough poorly formatted images in the wild already</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Norman</div></body></html>