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

[Tom Fukushima]

The bad news is that we already allocated our time trying to reproduce the defect (without success) and have moved on.

However, I think that Steve will have time to be able to work on this in the new year.

Tom

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From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Zac Spitzer
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] RE: GDAL Stability (Was: Project Sponsorship)

The good news is Tom was finally able to reproduce the bug using the
package I created :)

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Zac Spitzer <zac.spitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Link to the package is against the ticket
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/ticket/462
>
> z
>
> 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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