[gdal-dev] Re: BigTIFF status [Was: Extract BIGTiff libraries from GDAL source package]

[Frank Warmerdam]

Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:12:01PM -0400, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> Enrico,
>>
>> I concur with Dave.  The best place to get the latest libtiff4 with
>> bigtiff support is CVS.  Please note that the Aperio code is a distinct
>> fork of libtiff and not supported or encouraged for use by the core
>> libtiff maintainers (ie. me).  It is unfortunate that it places well on
>> a BigTIFF google search as it has lead several folks astray, including
>> at least one sizable commercial organization who helped fund the
>> official libtiff BigTIFF port!
>>
> 
> Frank
> 
> is there some sort-of tentative/possible roadmap about an official bigtiff 
> merging in libtiff? It seems a forever pending feature currently... 

Frankie,

There is no issue of merging - it is in libtiff CVS HEAD.  So I assume the
question is when will there be an official libtiff 4.0.0 release.  It could
really be done any time, but I have be slothful and the other libtiff
maintainers have also not come forward to make it happen.

I don't know how to answer when a release will happen.

Best regards,
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