[gdal-dev] GDAL/OGR 1.6.0 Release Candidate 2

[Maciej Sieczka]

Frank Warmerdam pisze:
> Folks,
> 
> There have been a few noteworthy errors identified and corrected
> since RC1 was issued.  So I've decided to retract it and prepare an
> RC2.  RC2 is available at:
> 
> http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal160RC2.zip - source as a zip 
> http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.6.0RC2.tar.gz - source as
> .tar.gz
> 
> On behalf of the GDAL project, I request everyone interested in a
> high quality final release do some quick verification of this
> candidate release.

There's a bug outstanding for 4 years now - INT DBF columns treated as
REAL (DOUBLE) [1]. There's been a related talk on PostGIS ML [2] and
QGIS dev ML [3] recently.

Is this bug planned to be fixed any time soon?

[1]http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/809
[2]http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2008-November/022030.html
[3]http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2008-November/004042.html


Maciek

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