[gdal-dev] 1.7 release date

[Matt Klaric]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org
> wrote:

>
> 1.7 release date hasn't been decided yet. There is no precise criterion to
> determine when it happens : it depends mainly on when RFC or major work
> planned by developers have been implemented. But if you look at the release
> date of previous "major" versions (1.6.0 ~ 04-Dec-2008, 1.5.0 ~
> 20-Dec-2007,
> 1.4.0 ~ 5-Jan-2007), you could expect 1.7.0 for the end of 2009.
>

Good to know.


>
> Depending on the bug fix (which one are you refering to ? ticket number,
> SVN
> revision), it could be considered to be backported into the next
> maintenance
> version of the 1.6.x branch. But 1.6.1 has been released just a few weeks
> ago, so 1.6.2 won't likely be released before a few months.
>
>
I'm looking at ticket #2989.  See: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2989

I'll likely end up creating a patch for my gentoo ebuild unless this gets
backported into a 1.6.2 release.  It's tough to deal with some of the new,
large GeoEye-1 scenes without this fix.

Thanks,
Matt
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