-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Agustin
Agustin Lobo wrote: > I personally use linux but have had to pay attention to Qgis running on > Windows > (and recently on Mac) because most students are using Windows (and, even > worse, vista). > But I must say that I feel a bit guilty for this. Somehow I feel that there > is a lot > of very good brain time being devoted to deal with windows-related problems > that could be much better invested on other things (including beach time). > Therefore, I would prefer being able to push more my students towards linux, > and this > would be a good time as they are having so many problems with vista. I'm > also teching > people from many different countries (Brazil, Korea, India, USA...), so the > impact would > be no-negligeable. > Nevertheless, I cannot do it. Why? because we still do not have ecw/mrsid > support for > binary linux installations of qgis, therefore cannot really tell my students > that installing qgis for linux is going to be better than installing qgis > for windows. > I've said in this list many times that having ecw/mrsid support for > binary linux installations of qgis is a major issue, perhaps not a sexy one > for developpers, I can understand it. But, don't know, I must be wrong. > > Agus > > The campaign for ecw/sid support on linux is one that should be moved to the gdal list I think. We are dependent on whatever packages are available for a givin distro so it makes sense to me to try to get the gdal packagers to accommodate you here. 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 ============================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknL8cEACgkQqk07qZdiYjd2lgCgsN1OnK4+0lpaA19fIK9i3bWA oAoAnidikpixS3xicS2iN5lT6PrsO1+7 =5yfO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
