Hi guys, On Sun, 17. Oct 2010 at 10:31:53 -0700, Mike Toews wrote: > On 17 October 2010 05:22, Francesco Parisi <[email protected]> wrote: > > is this *old* sdk still avalable for donwnload? > Also, there are no plans (at the moment) to support ECW in GDAL >= > 1.7, which is bad news if you want to use QGIS >= 1.6.
Would you guys please stop to say that? GDAL supports ECW[1] and in turn QGIS does. It's just that it doesn't support the current SDK for legal reasons (AFAIK new restrictions and licensing issues) and requires the old one. And the old SDK is not available _from ERDAS_ anymore. And there is no ECW plugin for GDAL 1.7 in OSGeo4W and there is no intent to create one because of the above issues. But it shouldn't be a problem to build one using the old SDK. Moreover it has been repeatly stated that QGIS doesn't even require GDAL 1.7. It works fine with 1.6 (and even 1.5). QGIS 1.5 in OSGeo4W and the standalone windows installer use GDAL 1.6 and there's nothing that forces us to switch to GDAL 1.7 with QGIS 1.6 - both ECW and MrSID are there already. And from what I hear ERDAS intends to support other platforms than Windows - they just released on their main and therefore most important platform first. And they advertise GDAL as API for ECW - so it looks like they have GDAL support for the new SDK. Maybe it helps if interested parties talk to ERDAS. Anyway, I'm glad that I only have to deal with rasters in formats that require proprietary software very rarely. Jürgen [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/ECW -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-20 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de -- norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
