Martin has some command line processing code built into GeTools - I found it during the providence review. So pehaps you could consider using that?
Adding a new module has a procedure, "ext" sounds like a fine home for these tools. If possible can these be added to trunk first? Jody > Hi all, > I've just finished adding the coverage tools to the 2.3.x build > and we need to discuss a few details. > > First, coverage tools are the tools Simone developed in order > to support the mosaic and pyramid plugin, as well as ways of > adding inner overviews and tiles to geotiff coverages. > It's pretty evident that these are more or less required > to release Geoserver with WCS support, because otherwise > we would be unable to play with pyramids and mosaics (in > fact, there is a way of supporting mosaisc with gdal tools, > but it's quite a bit of work). > > In order to build them with maven, I had to push onto > lists.refractions.net a commons-cli-2.0 pre-release, > since the tools use that, and there is no official release > (apparently various jakarta projects do use commons-cli > 2.0-SNAPSHOT internally, but I could not find a jar on > ibiblio). > > The second thing I did, is to add them to the 2.3.x > build so that more people can play with them, and at least > set them up in their developer environments. > It's a way to get more people on the tools. > > Now, commons-cli could be replaced with something else > eventually, don't know how you feel about it. > > What I like less is to have something that's > in ext/coverage_development/coveragetools in the build, > I'd prefer to move the tools in ext... but they are > not unit tested. > > So, since there's a need for these tools in order to > play with big images in WCS, and I guess uDig would be > interested too, what do you propose we do? > > Cheers > Andrea > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
