[Qgis-developer] what support of ecw after new release

[William Kyngesburye]

On Oct 16, 2010, at 7:23 AM, Giovanni Manghi wrote:

> Hi Andrea,
> 
> 
>> I need to understand if with the dismission of qgis 1.5 for qgis 1.6.
>> will be lost forever the capability to read the ecw .
> 
> it is needed the gdal17-ecw package in the osgeo4w installer, as the new
> sdk from Erdas is now available.
> 
> I don't know the situation about linux/osx (that interest more to me).
> 
Right, ECW support is dependent on GDAL and has nothing to do with a specific QGIS version (other than which version of GDAL it uses).

One thing about the *new* ECW SDK v4 is that so far (and very likely forever) it is Windows-only.  Everyone else is stuck with the partly working (at least on OS X) and now-hard-to-find v3.


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