Thanks Andrea; I did not imagine it was easy (only that there is a window of opportunity made known to me by frank).
Jody On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote: > Jody Garnett ha scritto: >> >> In talking to Frank today I learned that gdal is trying to push 1.7 >> out the door; as I understand it (from a conversation at foss4g) we >> are hanging back a version due to memory leaks. > > Due to unforeseeable instability actually. GDAL is well tested in its > own common case, which is short usage: generally speaking desktop apps > don't run more than a few hours, and MapServer is more often than not > running without fastcgi enabled. Even when it is a segfault brings > down one worker, which is promptly replaced by the FastCGI runtime. > > When it comes to GeoServer we have a single process running for weeks > or months. If it segfaults the service goes down, period. > It's much a more demanding working environment. > > That means we need to test it a lot more and it makes sense to use > releases that are known to be very stable to start with, also given > time is usually short and thus there is none to be spent debugging > GDAL proper (the bindings themselves have to be debugged/improved to > start with). > > Only Simone and his crew have the skill to port the bindings to GDAL 1.7 > and at the moment, afaik, are working on a port towards 1.6. > > Not sure if he has any time to check out 1.7, I cannot answer for him. > Just trying to explain that this is not as easy as it may seem. > > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > Andrea Aime > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
