[Qgis-developer] Problem with ecw in Trunk-1.5.0-143

[Alex Mandel]

On 07/14/2010 11:21 AM, Alexander Bruy wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:46:41 +0200
> Jože Detečnik <joze.detecnik at jkp-sg.si> wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>>
>> Trunk version need to install Gdal17 but same time ecw files are stop
>> working. Anybody know why that?
>>
>> With Gdal16 in version 142 that worked fine.
> 
> At this time additional packages with ecw and python support for GDAL 1.7.2
> are not available. So ecw support is brocken and some Python plugins
> (e.g. Gdal Tools) are not working.
> 
> Wait while new packages will be available or downgrade to previous version of
> QGIS which builded with GDAL 1.6
> 

Based on the traffic I've heard on from the GDAL side, this may not be
fixed. Word(not 100% confirmed) is that Erdas no longer offers the ECW
dll files for free from their website so their is no way to build in
support. So ECW support may require that you purchase such drivers from
Erdas.

So you might want to consider moving your data out of that format to
something with a more clear license like Mrsid.

Enjoy,
Alex