On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > Folks, > > Ivan has discovered that GDAL 1.7.0 is producing HFA files that are > corrupt - that is they are only readable with GDAL. Imagine and older > versions of ArcGIS fail to read them. The problem is described in: > > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3382 > > I consider this problem very serious, and the longer that GDAL 1.7.0 > is in use the more of these corrupt Imagine files will be produced and > cause problems for the world. For that reason, I would like to press > ahead to produce a GDAL 1.7.1 release soon, and to mark GDAL 1.7.0 deprecated > due to this serious bug. Does anyone feel this is overkill? > > Are there any other high priority fixes folks would like to see in a GDAL > 1.7.1 > release? I am thinking of preparing an RC on Monday if there is no objection.
+1. Except for BigTIFF, the HFA driver is one of the consistent large file drivers we have. Instead of marking it deprecated, I think we should retract the release (remove it from download.osgeo.org) and immediately issue 1.7.1 RC1 today. 1.7.0 hasn't been disseminated that widely, and a new release shouldn't be that disruptive to downstream packagers that are just starting to incorporate 1.7. Was this just an issue of limited test coverage? Howard _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
