[gdal-dev] 1.7 release date

[Even Rouault]

Personnaly, being the author of that change, this one is precisely the type of 
change that I'm really reluctant to backport. Much too large and risky for a 
stable branch, on top of previous changes over the the whole NITF driver 
since 1.6, etc... I see support for 64-bit offsets in NITF more as a new 
feature than a bug fix.

Le Wednesday 10 June 2009 20:11:00 Matt Klaric, vous avez écrit :
> 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