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

[William Kyngesburye]

Just remember that I could never get ECW write to work, so my GDAL ECW plugin is read-only.  If someone has time and skills to get writing to work for ECW, that would be cool.

On Jul 8, 2011, at 9:47 PM, Noli Sicad wrote:

> 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
>> 
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