[Liblas-devel] New win32 installer

[Mateusz Loskot]

Neil Woodhouse pisze:
> Howard,
> 
> 	It must seem like I am a pain. Sorry for that. I really want to
> use the code, but don't want to have to install everything else to make
> it happen. In terms of LAS files they are beginning to revolutionize
> what we are doing.

Neil,

I share your complains, but I think the root of the problem is in LAS 
specification itself. The LAS specification *uses* some features of 
GeoTIFF specification. Consequently, we - LAS implementors - have to use 
elements of GeoTIFF implementation. The best GeoTIFF implementation is 
available in libgeotiff. The disadvantage is obvious, that is libgeotiff 
makes the chain of libLAS dependencies more complex and libLAS users 
need to be provided with all of them together:
- libLAS
- libgeotiff
-- libjpeg
-- zlib

We have discussed (together with Frank Warmerdam) some ideas about 
extracting CRS/projections part from libgeotiff as a tiny separate 
library. Conclusion was that it's not a good idea.

To summary, I believe the current configuration is a good compromise.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org