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

[Volker Fröhlich]

ERDAS removed the old SDK from their website and announced a new one for July. 
That may be the reason.

http://www.erdas.com/tabid/84/currentid/1142/default.aspx

Volker

Am Mittwoch 14 Juli 2010, 20:44:05 schrieb 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
> 
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