[Qgis-developer] QGIS 1.5 Branch is done - Call for Packaging

[Frank Warmerdam]

Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Il 19/07/2010 09:42, Jürgen E. Fischer ha scritto:
>> Hi Paolo,
>>
>> On Mon, 19. Jul 2010 at 08:29:12 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>>> GDAL 1.7 should (untested-no win here) be on osgeo4w now: any plans on using
>>> this instead of 1.6 for final packages?
>> The qgis-dev package use GDAL 1.7.   1.6 has no python support and no ECW/MrSID
>> support yet.  So I thought it's better to stick with 1.6 for qgis.
> 
> Hi Jurgen.
> What do you mean saying that 1.6 has no python support?
> All the best.

Paolo,

I have not yet built the gdal17-python package for OSGeo4W.   I assume he
meant 1.7, not 1.6.  I did *try* but the setup.py checks if Visual Studio
is in the registry and it is not on my system.  Oh, that pisses me off.

Best regards,
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