[ELGIS] Supported GDAL formats in wiki

[Peter Hopfgartner]

--------Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote--------
Subject: Re: [ELGIS] Supported GDAL formats in wiki
Date: 24.06.2011 12:16

>> Having a look at the debian package, they use internal tiff and geotiff.
>Is there any criteria to chose one or the other? libtiff on CentOS 5 is
>quite old, would it make sense to use the internal one?
>
>This was discussed some time ago:
>http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/el/2010-October/thread.html#120
>(see threads with bigtiff)
>
>and Frank Warmerdam explicitly discouraged us to use the internal one:
>http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/el/2010-October/000119.html
>
>The conclusion of this discussion was that we should produce a
>libtiff4 package and make sure that it can live along the base
>libtiff.
>
I would say that Frank's opinion is absolutely authoritive on that!

>As for epsilon, we need to have this library packaged as an RPM first.
>I could not find it, neither in EPEL nor in Fedora.
>
>Both are feasible but require some work (that is, packaging a related
>dependency).
>
>I'd be happy to integrate any contributed spec files / SRPM.

Trust Volker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660024

No priority for that. I'll try to compile this one in the next days, anyway.

>Cheers,
>
>Mathieu
>

Bye,

Peter
 
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