[Gdal-dev] Are there plans to integrate geojp2 with main jasper source?

[Steve Halasz]

Hi,

I've requested[1] inclusion of the geojp2 modifications for jasper[2] to
debian's version of that library. The debian maintainer of jasper has
asked:

> * When I include the feature now only for Debian, I'm responsible for
> supporting it in future versions. I hope you understand that it's hard
> to track different derived upstream versions (patches) and that it would
> be much more appreciated to see such features included in the main
> jasper distribution. Have you asked Michael D. Adams yet? I understand
> that he seems to be busy and doesn't have much time for maintaining it.
> What about a joint effort of maintaining jasper collaboratively (like a
> sourceforge project) with him?

Has any petition been made to Michael D. Adams along these lines?

Thanks,
Steve

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=275619
[2] ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/gdal/jasper-1.701.0.uuid.tar.gz