[mapguide-internals] RE: GDAL Stability (Was: Project Sponsorship)

[Frank Warmerdam]

Tom Fukushima wrote:
> We didn't do any testing with MrSID and ECW.
> 
> We don't plan on doing MrSID and ECW, because if there are problems we don't
> have any control of those libraries so we would have to add workarounds in
> the GDAL provider code; and that is more work than we can take on.
> Threading problems are one of the worst time sinks.

Jason,

It was also my advice to Tom to focus first on a "well behaved" driver like
GeoTIFF.  The lesson is that the problems are likely GDAL driver specific
rather than relating to how the GDAL FDO provider is implemented.

Best regards,
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