Hi On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Alister Hood <[email protected]> wrote:
-8<-------snip------------------------ > - I'm not convinced the OSGeo4W installer is very risky. Are people having > problems with it without doing an "advanced install" and choosing weird > things? IMO the only good reason for recommending the standalone installer > is that OSGeo4W doesn't provide ECW libs (but the standalone installer isn't > actually respecting the license on these, anyway...) Actually the standalone is widely used by people with low bandwidth because the typical pattern is for one person to sacrifice the time / money to download it and then share it widely saving others the expense and time of doing the same. Secondly, we did have an agreement with ERMapper to redistribute the ECW libs (I believe the agreement should be in the installer bundle), although I am unclear as to whether the acquisition of ERMapper by Erdas has impacted on that agreement. We had a similar agreement in place for shipping MrSid binaries. Although these are both proprietary formats, not having them is a show stopper for many people working with remote sensing data. Regards -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) ============================================== Please do not email me off-list with technical support questions. Using the lists will gain more exposure for your issues and the knowledge surrounding your issue will be shared with all. Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming and support services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net ============================================== _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
