[mapguide-internals] Please test MGOS 1.2.0 Beta 2

[Frank Warmerdam]

Andy Morsell wrote:
> And, since Frank continues to maintain this out of the kindness of his
> heart, I would like to offer something in exchange for seeing continued GDAL
> FDO improvements.  Often, raster support is one of the most important
> aspects of any of my clients MapGuide sites.  And, good performance for a
> wide variety of formats, especially wavelet compressed formats is
> particularly important.   The need for tile spatial indexing (raster
> catalogs) is also very important as many people maintain their imagery cut
> up into these tiles and the current read mechanisms are too inefficient for
> images maintained this way.  
> 
> I know it's not much, but I am willing to contribute $1000 to Frank
> specifically for GDAL FDO maintenance and improvements.  Perhaps this will
> also spur others who need fast and stable raster support to also contribute
> to this fund.  

Andy,

I do appreciate this offer but for now I've got a contract from Autodesk
to develop the GDAL based provider, and I'm willing to carry some overhead,
like producing custom binaries as goodwill related to that contract.

Once the contract is done, I think it might be interesting to consider
some mechanism to ensure the the mapguide os community gets the raster
support it needs.  That could mean folks in the community coming forward
to help prepare custom builds, or an OSGeo binary distribution mechanism
that has everything, or MapGuide/FDO having some sort of sponsorship
program to support maintaining some non-autodesk components.

In the meantime, horde that cash in a "community support" jar and I'll
try and produce new DLLs tomorrow if folks are pretty sure the current
ones don't work.

Best regards,
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