[gdal-dev] ECW driver as a plugin

[Even Rouault]

In case it might interest you, the UbuntuGIS team packages a GDAL ECW plugin :

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ppa/

Le Wednesday 10 February 2010 19:28:08 Jason Beverage, vous avez écrit :
> Hi Frank,
>
> By "official" version of the plugin I meant the definitive source.  I
> would have expected to find the ECW plugin as part of GDAL itself, or
> downloadable from the GDAL website rather than going through GRASS to
> get the GDAL ECW plugin.  Just wanted to make sure I was getting the
> plugin from the "right" place.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> 
wrote:
> > Jason Beverage wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm exploring different methods of deploying GDAL with ECW support and
> >> saw various posts about building ECW support as a plugin vs including
> >> it within the build.  I found the GDAL ECW plugin and instructions
> >> here (http://home.prea.net/node/79) but the source is from the GRASS
> >> project.  I tried it out with GDAL 1.6.3 and it seemed to work great.
> >> Is this the "official" GDAL ECW plugin?
> >
> > Jason,
> >
> > The approach described seems fine, but the project does not produce
> > "official"
> > binaries for linux itself, and so there is no official version of the
> > plugin.
> >
> > Best regards,
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