Kai Lautaportti wrote: > 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 >
Sounds like we've got consensus. Sean _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community
