[Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Two weeks to get QGIS into the next, Ubuntu 9.04 release

[Agustin Lobo]

Done. This issue has been discussed several times, not reaching any
practical solution though.
Agus

2009/2/7 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>:
> Thanks for enlightening me Agustin,
> Do you mind CCing this email to the qgis list so that you (or I) can ask how
> people suggest this is solved for:
> 1. debiangis
> 2. ubuntugis
> 3. the liveDVD
>
> I suspect this might be a show stopper for Debian, but Ubuntu and the
> LiveDVD might be able to get around this.
>
> Agustin Lobo wrote:
>>
>> Cameron
>> I've seen your message to the QGIS dev list.
>> Just wanted to let you know my opinion that a major problem of the
>> current QGIS binaries for ubuntu is that they lack support
>> for ECW and MrSid raster formats. This has been accomplished for
>> the windows osgeo4w distribution, so I guess that similar solutions to
>> solve licensing issues should exist (i.e., even if the qgis binaries
>> cannot include support for these formats, the qgis installation could
>> contemplate the possibility of adding support for these formats
>> through an independent, subsequent installation) .
>> Many raster layers provided by cartographic institutions are in either
>> ecw or MrSid format, including the extensive Landsat archive in
>> https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/
>> Not having support for these formats is enough for many potential users to
>> actually not using qgis under linux.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Agus
>>
>
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