On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 22:35 +0200, Jody Garnett wrote:
> I also admit that if you want to step forward as a module maintainer we 
> are open to maintaining and making "something" available
> that is more useful (even if it is just an out reach to the geowidgets 
> project).

No! No! No! Geotools must keep the mappane simple.

The mappane is an *example* or, at the extreme, a trivially simple user
app for users who require only minimal display. The code must cost
developers nothing. I would personally argue to keep but document all
the bugs which arise (except the missing close_on_exit because that's
pointlessly annoying). 

Keep Geotools a lib, there's plenty to do there without worrying about
getting 'Great mappane number 9' running again for release 2.8. We
agreed to work on a mappane because it was wanted but *not* to create a
sophisticated app. 

We all would like a better set of GUI widgets and, check it out, there's
a whole project to do just that. The out of this world great mappane and
its ilk belong in GeoWidgets. If you want to work on a gui for free GIS.
Please, please, PLEASE join GeoWidgets. 

--adrian



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