[gdal-dev] Proposal: Native MrSID DSDK Support for Upcoming GDAL Version (Surendrakumar Dandru)

[Greg Troxel]

Michael Katz via gdal-dev <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> writes:

>  Can someone clarify whether the "Native MrSID" proposal would change
>  the functionality of the library, or would only make it easier to use
>  the library through GDAL. I posted a few months ago about an apparent
>  color bug in the GDAL MrSID implementation compared to the LizardTech
>  tool.

Nobody can, because the "native MrSID" posting was extremely vague.
It's not a proposal, but rather a request for Someone Else to write some
(unspecified) code.

But I would guess that the request was about compilation mechanics.