Adrian Custer ha scritto: > 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). > Hmm... as an example it should be simple, but correct. > 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. > I don't know whether to agree or not. Geowidgets is... a component library too. Having them as a separate project did not help much their survival, at least when people do revolutions in the geotools source code base (or even a simple refactoring) the components would be taken into account as well. > 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. The only problem I see is that gt2 rendering people should participate in the activities of GeoWidgets as well. Do I want to be part of another open source project? Probably not? Martin's efforts are geared towards the "go" specification, which is supposed to be implemented in the "gt2-go" module in geotools, already available in trunk/gt/ext/go...
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