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
>
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