Ah ok, thanks for helping me understand. So shipping a gdal extension
indeed seems pointless? Shall we just simply remove it? For 2.0 one was
built.
Andrea Aime wrote:
> Justin Deoliveira ha scritto:
>>
>>
>> Andrea Aime wrote:
>>> Justin Deoliveira ha scritto:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Currently we don't have an extension module for gdal. We simply
>>>> bundle it at release time. I think it would be nice to have it work
>>>> like the other extensions do and activate it via profile.
>>>>
>>>> Any objections to adding one?
>>>
>>> None in principle, on the contrary, not sure it can be done in
>>> practice thought.
>>>
>>> The reason we don't have a GDAL extension atm is that the image mosaic
>>> plugin is carrying over the GDAL dependencies in core, and I think
>>> it might not work properly if they are not around (but I'm not sure,
>>> Simone/Daniele will correct me).
>> I don't quite understand this part. So the gdal extension (which drags
>> in gt-imageio-ext and a bunch of imageio-ext-gdal* jars) requires also
>> that the gt-imagemosaic module be around as well?
>
> The other way around. gt-imagemosaic needs gt-imageio-ext
>
>>>
>>> The reason I've not complained about this (because, yes, it dodged the
>>> usual module graduation process, so there was actually something to
>>> complain about) is basically because the GDAL support
>>> lays dormant up until you install the native libraries and make
>>> them available to the JVM. That's quite close to having to install
>>> a normal extensions, just that you' don't have to modify GeoServer,
>>> but the runtime instead.
>> Right. So you have to have the the native libs around regardless. So
>> coudl this still not work the same way? First install the native gdal
>> libs and make available to the JVM. And then engage the gdal extension
>> via profile? Or am I missing something?
>
> What I'm saying is that the jars are already there in core, and we
> have been shipping them since 1.7.something. You don't need a profile
> as things stand today.
>
> aa...@phoenix:~/devel/gs2.0.x/src/wms$ mvn dependency:tree -o
> [INFO]
> NOTE: Maven is executing in offline mode. Any artifacts not already in
> your local
> repository will be inaccessible.
>
> [INFO] Scanning for projects...
> [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'dependency'.
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Building Web Map Service Module
> [INFO] task-segment: [dependency:tree]
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] [dependency:tree {execution: default-cli}]
> [INFO] org.geoserver:wms:jar:2.0.1-SNAPSHOT
> [INFO] +- org.geoserver:main:jar:2.0.1-SNAPSHOT:compile
> [INFO] | +- org.geoserver:ows:jar:2.0.1-SNAPSHOT:compile
> [INFO] | | +- org.acegisecurity:acegi-security:jar:1.0.7:compile
> [INFO] | | | \- org.springframework:spring-jdbc:jar:2.5.5:compile
> (version managed from 1.2.9)
> [INFO] | | | \- org.springframework:spring-tx:jar:2.5.5:compile
> [INFO] | | +- commons-lang:commons-lang:jar:2.1:compile
> [INFO] | | +- org.geoserver:platform:jar:2.0.1-SNAPSHOT:compile
> [INFO] | | +- org.geotools.ogc:net.opengis.ows:jar:2.6-SNAPSHOT:compile
> [INFO] | | | \- org.geotools.ogc:org.w3.xlink:jar:2.6-SNAPSHOT:compile
> [INFO] | | +- org.geotools.xsd:gt-xsd-ows:jar:2.6-SNAPSHOT:compile
> [INFO] | | \- org.geotools.xsd:gt-xsd-core:jar:2.6-SNAPSHOT:compile
> [INFO] | | +- picocontainer:picocontainer:jar:1.2:compile
> [INFO] | | +- xml-apis:xml-apis-xerces:jar:2.7.1:compile
> [INFO] | | +- commons-jxpath:commons-jxpath:jar:1.2:compile
> [INFO] | | | \- ant:ant-optional:jar:1.5.1:compile
> ...
>
> [INFO] | \- org.geotools:gt-imagemosaic:jar:2.6-SNAPSHOT:compile
> [INFO] | \- org.geotools:gt-imageio-ext-gdal:jar:2.6-SNAPSHOT:compile
> [INFO] | +-
> it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-gdalmrsid:jar:1.0.5:compile
> [INFO] | | \-
> it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-gdalframework:jar:1.0.5:compile
> [INFO] | | +-
> it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-gdal-bindings:jar:1.4.5b:compile
> [INFO] | | \-
> it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-geocore:jar:1.0.5:compile
> [INFO] | +-
> it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-gdalecw:jar:1.0.5:compile
> [INFO] | +-
> it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-gdaldted:jar:1.0.5:compile
> [INFO] | +-
> it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-gdalkakadujp2:jar:1.0.5:compile
> [INFO] | +-
> it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-gdalmrsidjp2:jar:1.0.5:compile
> [INFO] | +-
> it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-gdalecwjp2:jar:1.0.5:compile
> [INFO] | +-
> it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-gdalehdr:jar:1.0.5:compile
> [INFO] | +-
> it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-gdalerdasimg:jar:1.0.5:compile
> [INFO] | +-
> it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-gdalnitf:jar:1.0.5:compile
> [INFO] | \-
> it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-imagereadmt:jar:1.0.5:compile
> ...
>
>
> See the above.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
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Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.
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