[Qgis-user] QGIS and ECW and MrSid formats

[Martin Dobias]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Magnus Homann <magnus at homann.se> wrote:
>
> Is there really a need to recompile QGIS depending on which formats are
> compiled into GDAL?
> Is it in that case possible to remove that dependency, such as dynamically
> query GDAL what
> formats are available?

No, there shouldn't be need to recompile QGIS. We're using GDAL C API
so if GDAL is recompiled (to support more formats) shouldn't affect
compatibility.
It's possible to query which drivers are available, there are some
GDAL function for doing that.

Martin