[El] Any objection to updating GDAL to 1.7.2 in elgis (stable)?

[Peter Hopfgartner]

It seems that the C-API of GDAL is quite stable and forward compatible. Nontheless, I would rebuild MapServer.
I can take the time to test it in the next days. GDAL 1.7 has some nice additions over 1.6, both in drivers and functionality. We are using it since a month, more or less, and did not encounter any problem.

Peter

--------Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote--------
Subject: Re: [El] Any objection to updating GDAL to 1.7.2 in elgis (stable)?
Date: 17.09.2010 11:38

>> Would it make sense to rebuild MapServer, too? It depends heavily on
>GDAL.
>
>If you think that it is not enough to only test with the new GDAL
>binaries (by enabling elgis-testing), and taht a rebuild is needed, I
>can easily build a new mapserver in elgis-testing.
>
>Would you find time to test it?
>
>I mean, there is no hurry, I'm pretty sure that GRASS would work
>properly with GDAL 1.6.3.
>But if we update GDAL in stable, we will then have all the latest
>stable versions of the major GIS libraries in elgis stable.
>