[gdal-dev] ECW driver as a plugin

[Jason Beverage]

Awesome, thanks for the info Even!

Jason

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
> 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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