Alessio Fabiani wrote:
Hi Martin, hi list
So ... we think that may be very useful to split (temporally or not ?) the GeoTools Raster package from the main package (something similar to the Referencing package) in order to let us work more easily on that without breaking the main build. Meybe we can create a sort of raster-branch on GeoTools with the splitted coverages where to commit all the code and made some experimentation.
Are you referring to just the interfaces? I general we are trying to break main up according to they layer diagram available in the developers guide. Martin just split main up once, and I am busting out all the interfaces after the 24th.
If there is good work for you guys to do, then lets keep modifying what we have while we wait for the ISO based interface to come together.
What would really help is a point list of what packages you guys need broken out from main ...
But the very important thing for us is that we absolutely don't want to be de-synchronized from the GeoTools trunk release, this is one of the main reasons a split can be useful.
If I understand you, you are not comfortable working on a branch - and then merging when you are done?
We would like to know what do you think about that and if our proposal is acceptable for you and, obviously, any kind of comment and suggestion.
I would need to hear a bit more of your rational, one of the things we are trying for is to not have RnD work happen on trunk. So even to perform the split I would take a branch, separate out the raster support, ensure everything works. Merge and release a milestone.
As you noticed today, when just prevented 2.1.x from going ahead it took minuets before developers noticed and were prevented from work. Trunk is going to be in exactly the same situation ...
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