[Qgis-developer] ecw and linux nightly builds

[Giovanni Manghi]

> So the current situation for "regular" GIS users who need support for 
> ecw is:
> On windows -
> You have a chance to get ecw support if you were lucky enough to 
> download the previous ERDAS SDK 4.0 (which is no longer available). The 
> latest one, 4.1 causes gdal to crash.

yes. A ticket on the osgeo4w tracker as already been filed.

> On Linux -
> You're probably out of luck for now.

you need the old sdk source code, then it compiles fine into GDAL.


cheers

-- Giovanni --