On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Sean Gillies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't mean to start a big discussion about why this software doesn't > get any love anymore. I simply think the world has moved on. I myself am > no longer very interested in "web mapping" or "web mapping frameworks" > as ZCO aspired to be in 2003. > > This software could be preserved as is, in the form of a compressed SVN > dump, for transfer to any new home or for study by future historians. > The zgeo.* packages, Shapely, GeoJSON, etc would remain active, though I > must admit that the appeal of migrating to GitHub or Launchpad grows on me. > > Opinions?
I would be happy to see the software at GitHub. We could put both the inactive PCL/ZCO/PrimaGIS stack and the active ones (zgeo.* etc) there. I think that would make contributing a whole lot easier and encourage experimentation and also reduce the administrative costs in terms of time and money. Having used both git and GitHub I can easily recommend both. I would be willing to help in doing such a migration. As to PrimaGIS, and to Alan in particular, the Plone 3 branch is almost finished in terms of the planned feature set and zope3 style refactoring. It does require some polish but should be easy to pick up if you're interested. However, during the development of ZCO/PrimaGIS I also came to realize that the design decisions that we made are not optimal (for large scale deployments), in particular the rendering of the map imagery should not, in my opinion, be the responsibility of the application server (Zope) as this can easily consume resources that could be better allocated. Depending on the project and requirements this may not be a concern and in such case PrimaGIS does offer nice integration into Plone and allows for creating custom maps without the need to host a separate map server. cheers, Kai -- CTO Kai Lautaportti Hexagon IT Oy [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.hexagonit.fi +358-40-486-9803 _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community
