[gdal-dev] Important - GDAL 1.7.0 - Imagine/HFA Driver Produces Corrupt Files

[Even Rouault]

Definitely +1 for retracting the 1.7.0 release and preparing a 1.7.1RC1.

Users of FWTools versions released after 28th February 2009 should be carefull 
too if they have produced HFA images.

Even

Le Friday 05 February 2010 15:41:14 Howard Butler, vous avez écrit :
> On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > Ivan has discovered that GDAL 1.7.0 is producing HFA files that are
> > corrupt - that is they are only readable with GDAL.  Imagine and older
> > versions of ArcGIS fail to read them.  The problem is described in:
> >
> >  http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3382
> >
> > I consider this problem very serious, and the longer that GDAL 1.7.0
> > is in use the more of these corrupt Imagine files will be produced and
> > cause problems for the world.  For that reason, I would like to press
> > ahead to produce a GDAL 1.7.1 release soon, and to mark GDAL 1.7.0
> > deprecated due to this serious bug.  Does anyone feel this is overkill?
> >
> > Are there any other high priority fixes folks would like to see in a GDAL
> > 1.7.1 release?  I am thinking of preparing an RC on Monday if there is no
> > objection.
>
> +1.  Except for BigTIFF, the HFA driver is one of the consistent large file
> drivers we have.  Instead of marking it deprecated, I think we should
> retract the release (remove it from download.osgeo.org) and immediately
> issue 1.7.1 RC1 today.  1.7.0 hasn't been disseminated that widely, and a
> new release shouldn't be that disruptive to downstream packagers that are
> just starting to incorporate 1.7.
>
> Was this just an issue of limited test coverage?
>
> Howard
>
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