Fwd: Re: [gdal-dev] FWTools and GDAL 1.7.0

[Livneh Yehiyam]

Hi Frank
I personally will be happy to see FWTOOLS updated at least for major Gdal releases. I find it to be a much simpler way to distribute Gdal to my end users.
I agree that OSGeo4W is more complete, but I think that for many users the simplicity of FWTOOLS wins.

Thanks
Yehiyam Livneh

From: "Frank Warmerdam"
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] FWTools and GDAL 1.7.0
Date: 04 ינואר 2011 05:11

On 11-01-03 06:40 PM, Kyle Shannon wrote:
> Hello all,
> I was working on #3890 and the ticket issuer reported gdalinfo version as:
>
>
> gdalinfo --version
>
> GDAL 1.7.0b2, FWTools 2.4.7, released 2010/01/19
>
> I downloaded FWTools 2.4.7 for windows and verified the version. I may be
> confused with the GDAL version, but assuming b2 is beta 2, wasn't this version
> was retracted? Does anyone know if beta 2 was released before the commit that
> caused the HFA issue? Just wondering if the FWTools should be upgraded to
> 1.7.x. Thanks.

Kyle,

FWTools was built at random intervals from GDAL trunk. It appears that
last release was around the 1.7 release point. I haven't really tried to
keep producing new FWTools releases over the last year and I'm not sure
I've retained enough of the materials for it to produce a new one. I
might revisit this at some point. In the meantime I mostly try to point
people to OSGeo4W now.

Best regards,
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