[Qgis-user] use ESRI file geodatabase format in QGIS + gdal 1.9

[Even Rouault]

Le jeudi 13 octobre 2011 20:57:29, Jürgen E. Fischer a écrit :
> Hi Even,
> 
> On Thu, 13. Oct 2011 at 19:33:36 +0200, Even Rouault wrote:
> > > On Thu, 13. Oct 2011 at 10:44:02 +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > > > So am I right in assuming, that if QGIS is build against e.g. gdal
> > > > 1.7 and I want to use gdal 1.9, I have to re-build QGIS - is this
> > > > correct?
> > > 
> > > Yes.
> > 
> > No ;-) I use all the time my dev version of GDAL and have never
> > recompiled QGIS to be able to do it (provided the GDAL version you link
> > against QGIS is
> > 
> > >= the GDAL version used to compile QGIS). I'm on Linux. It might perhaps
> > >be
> > 
> > harder on other platforms : I just haven't tried to do it on them.
> 
> Ok, given the stable GDAL C-API I was also tempted to describe this, still
> that's cheating ;)

Not really cheating, but advanced use for power users, certainly. So far, the 
GDAL project has made its best to guarantee ABI stability for the C API 
accross 1.X versions, so it would be a shame not using it.

> 
> 
> Jürgen