Howard Butler wrote: > On Apr 23, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Sean Gillies wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to get some feedback on an idea for reorganizing our projects >> to increase the visibility of the more active ones. Here's a summary >> of >> my proposal for new logical groups: >> >> * Consolidate PCL and PrimaGIS in one repo and one workspace (trac >> instance) named "PrimaGIS". >> * Create a new project workspace named "ZPGeo" to include the zgeo.* >> packages and Plone products that are not a part of PrimaGIS. >> * Python packages like Shapely, Rtree, WorldMill remain together under >> "GISPy". >> * The spatialindex lib remains in its own project. >> > > I would push RTree into the spatialindex lib. If we ever get a C API > for spatialindex, it would seem natural that we would redo native > bindings with ctypes or pyrex or something and just distribute them > with the library. >
I have 2 concerns here. First, could this not obstruct the development of SWIG-based multi-language bindings for spatialindex? You've reminded me before about how much the wider FOSS4G community loves their swigged bindings. Second, I'd like to be able to tag and release Rtree independently of, and probably more often than, spatialindex. It's so much easier to test and release Python packages. > >> I suppose another option would be to lump everything together into one >> repo and workspace, but I'm not fond of that one. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> I'm going to be between jobs from June 11 to July 1 and will have >> plenty >> of time to work on this. I'd like to upgrade Trac at the same time to >> get the newer web admin and user management plugins. >> > > I'm running Trac trunk for http://liblas.org with good success as > another data point. > > Any chance to revisit the over generality of gispython.org during the > transition? I don't know what we'd rebrand ourselves as. Do we have > a really strong brand with gispython.org? I'm concerned that we've > done the Python GIS community a bit of a disservice by branding > ourselves "GIS Python", as if to mean all things GIS to Python, when > in fact we're rather picky about what we let in :) > > Howard True. I think "GIS Python" is not a significant brand. PrimaGIS, Shapely, and Rtree have more name recognition on their own. What would you suggest instead? Sean _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community
