Definitely +1 for retracting the 1.7.0 release and preparing a 1.7.1RC1. Users of FWTools versions released after 28th February 2009 should be carefull too if they have produced HFA images.
Even Le Friday 05 February 2010 15:41:14 Howard Butler, vous avez écrit : > 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 _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
