[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #2883: ECW support gdal 1.7

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#2883: ECW support gdal 1.7
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        Reporter:  gespiel                           |         Owner:  nobody       
            Type:  enhancement                       |        Status:  closed       
        Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |     Milestone:  Version 1.5.0
       Component:  Rasters                           |       Version:  Trunk        
      Resolution:  invalid                           |      Keywords:               
Platform_version:  xpsp3                             |      Platform:  Windows      
        Must_fix:  Yes                               |   Status_info:  0            
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Comment(by warmerdam):

 Erdas no longer distributes the ECW SDK DLLs required by the GDAL ECW
 Plugin.  As such, I am hesitant to try and provide an ECW plugin for GDAL
 1.7 as only people who already happen to have the DLL will be able to use
 it.

 Essentially, at the action of Erdas ECW support in OSGeo4W has become
 deprecated.  It might make sense for us (ie. me) to approach Erdas about
 alternate arranagements, but it is not high on my priority list.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/2883#comment:3>
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