[Qgis-developer] Qgis-developer Digest, Vol 17, Issue 17

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

Many thanks to Tisham for being pressganged....ahem *volunteering* to
maintain windows binary of QGIS...

Regarding ECW to me is seems the best way to go forward on that is to
provide support via an additional download that can install ecw bits
and bobs into an existing QGIS install. Since this package could be
completely independent of QGIS, just having gdal bits and bobs, I
believe it would keep QGIS project immune from any potential license
infringement....but Im not a lawyer so other people may have a better
assessment of this idea....

In general it would be great to have as many gdal supported formats as
possible - bearing in mind issues like:

https://svn.qgis.org/trac/ticket/182

Regards


Tim

2007/7/23, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
> Hi Bejamin.
> We do not use windows, but many of our customers do.
>
> Benjamin Ducke ha scritto:
> >
> > tisham at apogee.com.au wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> Tim has assigned me as the 0.9 win champion. I would like to know
> >> which features people would like most in the release as relates to:
> >>
> >> grass - which version , 6.3 ?
>
> +1 (much better, especially for the much improved grass toolbox)
>
> >> gdal/ogr - which supported raster and vector formats , a lot of
> >> gdal/ogr formats require additional dependencies e.g GML requires
> >> xerces and ECW support does not compile under MSYS/MINGW( I am slowly
> >> patching to make it work anyone who absolutely needs ECW better help
> >> me :) )
>
> the latest GDAL should be the best.
> ECW support is one of the most requested features. The licencing
> structure is uncertain, but it it is at all possible this would be a
> major improvement.
>
> It would be useful to kind of automate the process, in order to have a
> fresh win snapshot to test even before the final release.
>
> Thanks a lot.
> pc
> --
> Paolo Cavallini
> http://www.faunalia.it/pc
>
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