On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 10:41:15PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for various gis toolchain wip i have @work, i need to experiment with
> webp, lzma & zstd compression in the geotiff container (see the various
> COMPRESS options in https://www.gdal.org/frmt_gtiff.html) - and either i
> need to make gdal use its internal tiff copy (where all options are
> enabled) or enable those options on the systemwide tiff.
> 
> im not pushing for this diff, but i'd like to start a discussion on the
> rationale - i looked, and xz/libwebp/zstd build fine on all the archs we
> build pkgs on (aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc,
> sparc64) and the options are all enabled by default in upstream libtiff
> (development is driven by gdal developers anyway those days).
> 
> of course this would impact wantlib for all graphics/tiff consumers,
> which is 186 ports according to sqlports, and require a bulk as 7300
> ports indirectly depend on it according to show-reverse-deps.

Disregarde for now, as graphics/libwebp depends on tiff this creates a
cyclic dependency. enabling xz & zstd might work though.

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