Thanks added your comment to the review.txt file. Jody > Jody, > Here is some history on this thing. > VPF (Vector Product Format) is an arcane data format developed by the > US Government. It is very commonly used in our military and > intelligence applications. No one in their right mind would use it > for any new or non-US project which is probably why you haven't heard > of it. > The Geotools VPF library was started by one Artur Hefczyc, who left > the project before I joined. He developed the low level reading > capability (what is now org.geotools.data.vpf.io and some of > org.geotools.data.vpf.ifc) but none of the higher level things that > would make the library useful. I then wrote the higher level stuff in > 2004 with help from two other people. I failed to develop official > unit tests for the library's high level functions. I know it wasn't > very XP of me, but it did not seem worth the effort to set up for two > reasons. First, since the format is very complex, I would have needed > a lot of test cases to get any kind of decent coverage. Since the > library is so isolated, the chances of regression problems were very > small and I just couldn't justify the time. Second, unlike most data > formats, VPF uses directories of interrelated files. To read a single > feature, you need at least a half a dozen files and probably more. I > wasn't even sure how to add such an array of files to SVN. Therefore > any unit tests you see were developed by Mr. Hefczyc for the low level > functions. > As far as IP is concerned, I do not believe Mr. Hefczyc has any > personal rights to any of this whatsoever. I was never able to > contact him and would be perfectly fine with replacing the headers > with the standard Geotools ones. > -Jeff > > Jody Garnett wrote: >> Hi Jeff, >> >> I am running (well crawling) through an IP check as part of our >> involvement with the OSGEO Foundation, I have added a review.txt file >> to your module (on trunk) and ask that you look it over. >> >> The only fun question concerns RowFieldTest and it non standard >> header :-) >>> * File is generated by 'Unit Tests Generator' developed under >>> * 'Web Test Tools' project at http://sf.net/projects/wttools/ >>> * Copyright (C) 2001 "Artur Hefczyc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> * to all 'Web Test Tools' subprojects. >>> * >>> * No rigths to files and no responsibility for code generated >>> * by this tool are belonged to author of 'unittestsgen' utility. >> I would like this file to have the standard geotools header for >> inclusion in the library, althought purely generated code >> we can sometimes integrate into the maven build system. I am hoping >> you know a bit more detail about this one then me ;-) >> >> Note I have guessed that your module was created in 2004 (and updated >> the headers accordingly), if this is incorrect could you please run >> through the headers again. >> Jody >> >> >>
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