[Live-demo] Upcoming 2016 FOSS4G events? - and OSGeo-Live draft press release and schedule

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/18/2015 11:33 AM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps we should compile a list of which packages are not yet
>> supporting GDAL 2.x to ease discussion?
>> Packages relying only on the C API don't need a change.
>>
>> One of the reasons I'm a bit pushy for gdal 2 is that I's love to have
>> Xerial released with gdal 2, otherwise we will be stuck with the "old"
>> version in the LTS release. If I'm not mistaking, fedora is also
>> already using GDAL 2.

>
> As far as I know, OTB is preparing a 5.2 release to support GDAL 2.x and
> ZOO-Project is preparing for a 1.6.0 release too.

We can build those against GDAL 1.11.2 if it is really needed. The
library packages can coexist (but packages will have to be build in a
ppa without GDAL 2).

Kind Regards,
Johan