[gdal-dev] GDAL 1.5+ and MrSID

[Nidel, Mike]

Yep, I'm familiar with that ticket.

So if 1.6 isn't going to be out yet for a few months,
would it be possible to tag a 1.5.3 that we know works
with MrSID 7.0? That would make my life easier...
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Butler [mailto:hobu.inc at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 12:38 PM
> To: Nidel, Mike
> Cc: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] GDAL 1.5+ and MrSID
> 
> Actually, I misspoke about no JP2 in 7.0.  It's there, but it 
> changed quite significantly and GDAL maybe hasn't been 
> updated to use it quite yet.
> 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2410
> 
> I think the plan is for 1.6 to be released sometime this 
> fall, but we haven't started the planning process for 1.6 
> yet.  Frank could comment on what his expectations are for 1.6...
> 
> Howard
> 
> On Jun 27, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Nidel, Mike wrote:
> 
> > That's a good start. Like I said, it seems to work with 1.5 
> branch but 
> > I just wasn't sure about the libtool issue. I didn't have 
> to configure 
> > with --with-jp2mrsid=no for some reason, although I did 
> read about how 
> > the JP2 support isn't there anymore in 7.0.
> >
> > For now, since I have 1.5 working with the imageio-ext library, I'm 
> > going to continue down the path I was on.
> >
> > I take it the trunk is 1.6? Is there any plan to release an 
> official 
> > version of 1.6 soon?
> >
> >
> > thanks for the reply,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Howard Butler [mailto:hobu.inc at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 11:32 AM
> >> To: Nidel, Mike
> >> Cc: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> >> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] GDAL 1.5+ and MrSID
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jun 27, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Nidel, Mike wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I've been following a few of the threads online regarding 
> building 
> >>> GDAL on MrSID 7.0, and the various issues that have 
> cropped up. It 
> >>> seems like the latest revisions to get MrSID 7 working with
> >> 1.5+ are
> >>> in the 1.5 branch, but not in any tag (e.g. 1.5.2, the
> >> latest 1.5.x I
> >>> saw). So one question is, is there any plan to release a
> >> 1.5.3 soon,
> >>> with support for MrSID 7.0?
> >>
> >> Mike,
> >>
> >> Just two days ago I compiled MrSID 7.0 on x86_64 against 
> trunk and it 
> >> worked quite well.  Give that combination a try and see if you can
> >> make any progress.   You'll have to say --with-jp2mrsid=no
> >> because the
> >> 7.0 SDK doesn't have JP2 in it.
> >>
> >> Howard
> >>
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