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

[Tamas Szekeres]

+1 for the new release.

Best regards,

Tamas



2010/2/5 Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>

> 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.
>
> Best regards,
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