[gdal-dev] Is it a big thing to change ECW to support 16-bit imagery?

[mohwawang]

Mateuse,

So what's the answer to the "correct" question?

Mo

--- On Fri, 3/27/09, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:

> From: Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net>
> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Is it a big thing to change ECW to support 16-bit imagery?
> To: "mohwawang" <mohwawang at yahoo.com>
> Cc: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 6:26 PM
> mohwawang wrote:
> > Is it a big job (for example, change the algorithm of
> compression in
> > ECW) or not so big a job to have ECW also support
> 16-bit imagery?
> 
> Wrong question. The correct one is: are you allowed to
> change
> anything in ECW to support anything what is not supported?
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
> Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
>