[ELGIS] POLL: 12 bit JPEG compression in TIFF

[Peter Hopfgartner]

On 08/02/2011 09:01 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
>> I do not know of any direct drawback, except that internal libjpeg and
>> libtiff/libgeotiff are used, instead of the system shared libs.
> Frank Warmerdam advised against using the internal libtiff back in October 2010:
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/el/2010-October/000119.html
> (the same would probably apply for libjpeg I guess)
We could think about a separate gdal, e.g. gdal-il,  package with 
internal libs, with bigTIFF and 12 bit enabled. BTW, UbuntuGIS is using 
internal libs, too.

Peter