[FWTools] Converting a black border to transparent in geotifs

[Simon J. Hook]

Hi Matt,

What would really help me is a python 2.4 version of fwtools. At the 
moment I have fwtools installed with GDAL under 2.3. I then have a 
separate installation of GDAL under 2.4 so I can use some other tools 
that require GDAL and python 2.4!

I also like the idea of everything and the kitchen sink installations 
but wonder if Enthought will release sufficiently regularly to be 
useful. At the moment there is only the 1 Enthon release from before the 
scipy conference and I could not find a subversion version. Having said 
that the Enthon version is really great.

Best wishes, Simon

Matt Wilkie wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
>> By comparison fwtools contains a whole bunch of useful tools, solid 
>> installation and GDAL. It might even make sense to include it with 
>> Enthon (www.enthought.com)?
>
> I, for one and as an end-user, like the idea of being able to install 
> python only once rather than having a separate installs for fwtools, 
> arcgis, and a generic one for other python apps I use. From a quick 
> perusal of Enthought's site it looks like I can use their distribution 
> for the latter two, so thanks! However I don't think fwtools is a good 
> match as so much of the bundled applications actually aren't python 
> (dir ...\fwtools\bin\*.exe).
>
> That's not to say that the python portions couldn't be included in 
> Enthought; I really don't know as I'm not a programmer. It just 
> wouldn't be a complete "fwtools" set. I'd still love to see a partial 
> inclusion. Perhaps put a feature request in the Enthought tracker and 
> see what happens? If the reception is warm, a note to the gdal-dev 
> mailing list might elicit some helpers.
>
> http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev/
>
> cheers,
>