[ptx] Release: autopano-sift 1.7, including Windows installer, no Gtk# required

[Mike Runge]

Hi Sebastian, hi all,

>Also I have built a non-tested Windows installer for the 1.7 version you could
>try :-) I hope the binaries from the .tar.gz tarball are useable everywhere
>there is .NET and Mono, which should include MacOS, Linux and Windows.

I tested the new windows binaries on wxp and w2k. It runs fine on wxp,
but I can't get the vbs-script running on w2k. Error message is:
http://www.panoclub.de/albums/album01/aae.jpg
I think this is due to my very old and undermaintained w2k installation,
that lacks of several service packs. Does somebody has an idea how to
get this working?!

On wxp it runs very nice. I like autopano-sift for not creating ANY wrong
point in the examples I did. It's much easier to find out, that there
are images without any controlpoints (autopano-sift reports that) and
picking a few points by hand than cleaning a project from wrong points.
The following panoramas I did last weekend with autopano-sift and it was
just fun:
http://www.panoclub.de/gallery/chicago/aab
http://www.panoclub.de/gallery/chicago/aah
Earlier attempts on theses exmaples with autopano (non-sift or older
versions than 1.6 of sift) failed. I think picking out points that are
spreaded over the whole overlap area is critical for my examples.

One question:
Is there a limitation of how many files the vbs-script can handle? I
tried (on wxp) to drag 54 images on the autopano-sift link and it errors
something like "Too many arguments ..."?!

Thanks a lot for the very nice work :-)

best, mike