[GRASS5] Setting a removal date for LZW

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Eric,

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:35:21PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> I'd like to set a date in the next week or two where we make the switch
> from using LZW to DEFLATE in reading/writing FP rasters and G3D files.
Yes, good idea. As we have the startup problems fixed, I will be
a tester for you!

> I've been using a version of libgis compiled with the new libz wrapper
> functions for the last couple weeks and have not had any problem with
> floating point rasters.  I have not yet tested it with G3D, though I
> don't expect any real problems since the new functions should be drop in
> replacements for the old and only need to know where to start
> reading/writing and how many bytes.  I will try to start testing G3D
> stuff in the next week, but I have very little experience using these
> files and associated programs.  One or two of the r3 modules will
> have to be changed with regards to renaming the option to use LZW to
> DEFLATE.
I am using G3D, so I'll test that as well.

> While I've had no problems, the only way to really know these functions
> are working correctly is to try them out under various operating
> conditions by a wider number of users (than 1).  I don't forsee any
> problems provide zlib is present, since these functions hardly do
> anything too tricky (the library takes care of the hard part).

Shall I wait or directly convert?

Ciao
Markus

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