[Live-demo] Will gdal 1.9 break your application on osgeolive?

[Even Rouault]

I confirm that the GDAL C API and ABI is stable (in the whole 1.X series). The 
GDAL C++ API is also stable, but the ABI not. So you can substitute a GDAL 
version by a later without recompiling user applications, provided they stick 
to the C API.

>  
> An outstanding problem previously was external libTIFF vs internal libTIFF
> I asked FrankW in December if he could exert postive influence on the
> packaging
> in UbuntuGIS to move to a newer GDAL and at the same time resolve the
> problems
> 
> I will try to look into this and see the status as best as I can

GDAL 1.9 has indeed 2 new options ( --with-rename-internal-libtiff-symbols=yes 
and --with-rename-internal-libgeotiff-symbols=yes ) that can be used in 
conjunction with --with-libtiff=internal and --with-geotiff=internal to 
completely keep internal libtiff and libgeotiff invisible from the rest of the 
world, so that you can link an application with GDAL and a different version of 
those libraries (typically libtiff 3.8 or 3.9).

> 
> best regards
>   -Brian
> 
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:19:25 -0800 (PST), Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> Astrid wrote:
> > > at the moment GDAL gdal is installed from the Ubuntu
> > > repository in Version 1.8.0. The actual GDAL Version
> > > is 1.9.0 [1]. So we could go for a newer version.
> > > 
> > > > As GDAL is used by many
> > > 
> > > other applications I do not know whether we get conflicts
> > > when we change the version to 1.9.0.
> > > 
> > > > What do you think?
> > 
> > We ship whatever UbuntuGIS ships; recompiling the entire stack by hand
> > is beyond our scope.  Stability and system integration >> latest shiny.
> > 
> > 
> > regards,
> > Hamish
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