On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 21/04/12 00:23, Juan Marín Otero wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Andrea Aime >> Yeah... with OGC I already moved thought the whole cycle of >> disbelief, anger and quiet acceptance of the situation regardless of >> how nonsensical it seems. >> This change must have a good reason behind it (I suppose), but it is >> going to create a lot of confusion on users. Crazy indeed. >> > > I have it on good authority that the OGC is just as unhappy with this > change as developers are. They were able to obtain an extension for over > six months. This backwards-incompatible change was chosen as the least-bad > option. > > Remember that OGC is an industry standards body funded by corporate > subscriptions. Many corporate members are vendors to the US government, as > are many users of GeoServer and GeoTools-based products. In the end, this > rather large customer is right. While the manner of how we get there might > be unpleasant, we will be left with one internationally accepted XLink > specification, and that is a good thing. > Ben, look, if a change is necessary for some reason you have to go and make revision n+1 of the standard and deprecate the old standards, not change standards released years ago under the software feet. The idea that I can release a software compliant with version X of a spec in 2005 and have it magically become incompatible in 2012 is inconceivable, it's a if electrical sockets could magically change their shape overnight and all your equipment at home suddenly becomes unusable Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 mob: +39 339 8844549 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf -------------------------------------------------------
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