[Qgis-developer] ECW for QGIS 1.7 Mac OS X

[Noli Sicad]

I think we don't really need to do ECW and MrSID support for QGIS  in Mac OS X.

It is already done!

William did this already.

http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/archive.

Extras

Version	Date	Size	10.3	10.4	10.5	10.6	Deps
ECW Plugin
ECW Plugin 1.8.0-1 	2011-1-25	3.1MiB			√	√	GDAL 1.8.0
ECW Plugin 1.7.1-1 	2010-2-12	3.0MiB			√	√	GDAL 1.7.1
ECW Plugin 1.6.2-1 	2009-9-12	2.8MiB			√	√	GDAL 1.6.2
Tiger support dropped, minimum now 10.5
ECW Plugin 1.6.1-1 	2009-5-18	2.9MiB		√	√	√	GDAL 1.6.1
ECW Plugin 1.6.0-2 	2008-12-18	2.9MiB		√	√	√	GDAL 1.6.0
ECW Plugin 1.5.3-1 	2008-12-13	3MiB		√	√	√	GDAL 1.5.3
ECW Plugin 1.5.0-2 	2007-12-12	3MiB		√	√	√	GDAL 1.5.0
Panther support dropped, minimum now 10.4.11
ECW Plugin 1.4.2-2 	2007-11-6	1.1MiB	√	√	?	x	GDAL 1.4.2 to 1.4.3
GeoPDF Plugin
GeoPDF Plugin 1.8.0-2 	2011-5-24	10.6MiB			√	√	GDAL 1.8.0-2
GeoPDF Plugin 1.8.0-1 	2011-1-25	2.9MiB			√	√	GDAL 1.8.0-1
MrSID Plugin
MrSID Plugin 1.8.0-2 	2011-5-24	17.5MiB			√	√	GDAL 1.8.0-2
MrSID Plugin 1.8.0-1 	2011-1-25	17.5MiB			√	√	GDAL 1.8.0-1
MrSID Plugin 1.7.1-1 	2010-2-20	4.8MiB			√	√	GDAL 1.7.1

QGIS support for Mac OS X is far better than Linux and Windows!!!!!!

Noli

On 7/9/11, Charlie Sharpsteen <chuck at sharpsteen.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Noli Sicad <nsicad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You can get all the info and documentation (e.g. SDK) of ECW in this
>> site (below)
>>
>> http://201.22.212.223/ecw/ecw/
>>
>> Yes, it would be nice if you can add this in homebrew.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Noli
>
> Hrm, maybe not. From the license file:
>
>> You are granted the rights to use the ER Mapper Image Compression SDK for
>> evaluation purposes only. You may not redistribute this software without
>> permission.
>
> Not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that is telling me not to add it to
> a package manager.
>
> -Charlie
>