[Gdal-dev] GDAL 1.4.0Beta2 Released

[Howard Butler]

One note that missed the NEWS file is I have done my best to 
implement $(DESTDIR) support when implementing the OSX Framework 
build stuff.  I've noticed that there are a number of distribution 
packagers that have been maintaining their own patchsets to inject 
$(DESTDIR) support.  Thorough testing of these changes and any notes 
related to items that may have been missed would be appreciated.

Howard

At 12:16 AM 12/20/2006, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I have cut a beta2 release tonight.  This includes a few bug fixes and
>improvements since beta1.  It also includes a NEWS file update since 1.3.2.
>The beta2 can be fetched from:
>
>   http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal-1.4.0beta2.tar.gz
>   http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal140beta2.zip
>
>I'll try and prepare an FWTools release corresponding to it tomorrow.
>
>The NEWS for 1.4.0 looks like this:
>
>GDAL/OGR 1.4.0 - General Changes
>--------------------------------
>
>Perl Bindings:
>  - Added doxygen based documentation.
>
>NG Python Bindings:
>  - Implemented numpy support.
>
>CSharp Bindings:
>  - Now mostly operational.
>
>WinCE Porting:
>  - CPL
>  - base OGR, OSR and mitab and shape drivers.
>  - GDAL, including GeoTIFF, DTED, AAIGrid drivers
>  - Added test suite (gdalautotest/cpp)
>
>Mac OSX Port:
>  - Added framework support (--with-macosx-framework)
>
>
>
>GDAL 1.4.0 - Overview Of Changes
>--------------------------------
>
>WCS Driver:
>  - New
>
>PDS (Planetary Data Set) Driver:
>  - New
>
>ISIS (Mars Qubes) Driver:
>  - New
>
>HFA (.img) Driver:
>  - Support reading ProjectionX PE strings.
>  - Support producing .aux files with statistics.
>  - Fix serious bugs with u1, u2 and u4 compressed data.
>
>NITF Driver:
>  - Added BLOCKA reading support.
>  - Added ICORDS='D'
>  - Added jpeg compression support (readonly)
>  - Support multiple images as subdatasets.
>  - Support CGM data (as metadata)
>
>AIGrid Driver:
>  - Use VSI*L API (large files, in memory, etc)
>  - Support upper case filenames.
>  - Support .clr file above coverage.
>
>HDF4 Driver:
>  - Added support for access to geolocation arrays (see RFC 4).
>  - External raw raster bands supported.
>
>PCIDSK (.pix) Driver:
>  - Support METER/FEET as LOCAL_CS.
>  - Fix serious byte swapping error on creation.
>
>BMP Driver:
>  - Various fixes, including 16bit combinations, and non-intel byte swapping.
>
>GeoTIFF Driver:
>  - Fixed in place update for LZW and Deflated compressed images.
>
>JP2KAK (JPEG2000) Driver:
>  - Added support for reading and writing gmljp2 headers.
>  - Read xml boxes as metadata.
>  - Accelerate YCbCr handling.
>
>JP2MrSID (JPEG2000) Driver:
>  - Added support for reading gmljp2 headers.
>
>EHDR (ESRI BIL) Driver:
>  - Support 1-7 bit data.
>  - Added statistics support.
>
>
>OGR 1.4.0 - Overview of Changes
>-------------------------------
>
>OGR SQL:
>  - RFC 6: Added support for SQL/attribute filter access to geometry, and
>    style strings.
>
>OGRSpatialReference:
>  - Support for OGC SRS URNs.
>  - Support for +wktext/EXTENSION stuff for preserving PROJ.4 string in WKT.
>  - Added Two Point Equidistant projection.
>  - Added Krovak projection.
>  - Updated support files to EPSG 6.11.
>
>OGRCoordinateTransformation:
>  - Support source and destination longitude wrapping control.
>
>OGRFeatureStyle:
>  - Various extensions and improvements.
>
>INFORMIX Driver:
>  - New
>
>KML Driver:
>  - New (write only)
>
>E00 Driver:
>  - New (read only)
>  - Polygon (PAL) likely not working properly.
>
>Postgres/PostGIS Driver:
>  - Updated to support new EWKB results (PostGIS 1.1?)
>  - Fixed serious bug with writing SRSes.
>  - Added schema support.
>
>GML Driver:
>  - Strip namespaces off field names.
>  - Handle very large geometries gracefully.
>
>ODBC Driver:
>  - Added support for spatial_ref_sys table.
>
>SDE Driver:
>  - Added logic to speed things up while actually detecting layer 
> geometry types
>
>PGeo Driver:
>  - Added support for MDB Tools ODBC driver on linux/unix.
>
>VRT Driver:
>  - Added useSpatialSubquery support.
>
>Best regards,
>--
>---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
>I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
>light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
>and watch the world go round - Rush    | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
>
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