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

[Zac Spitzer]

Link to the package is against the ticket

http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/ticket/462

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On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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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