Jody Garnett wrote:

>>>     
> Question - these things are "plugins" for xml-xsd are they not? Well
> everything other then "engine"...
 They are not plugins. Not in the same sense as datastores anyways.
Clients have to depend on the modules directly.
> 
> Should we not have:
> - modules/library/xml-xsd <-- basically the engine
> - modules/plugin/gml2
> - modules/plugin/gml3
> - modules/plugin/filter
> - modules/plugin/sld
>> By the same token, shall we create a jdbc top folder and stick every
>> jdbc datastore in it, or do the same for file oriented ones? What about
>> creating a plugins/grid for all grid plugins?
>>   
> Gah - we already have a deep directory structure ... do we want to
> encourage this further?
>> The current trend in Geotools is to add folders to categorize things,
>> yet I cannot say I'm too happy with this, paths are becoming
>> increasingly long and hard to navigate both from UI and keyboard.
>> For example:
>>
>> C:\progetti\geotools\trunk\modules\plugin\postgis\src\main\java\org\geotools\data\postgis\collection\PostgisFeatureCollection.java
>>
>>   
> I think this is an artifact of our maven 2 build system, we have
> different requirements for "library" vs "plugins" vs "unsupported.
>> On my disk I'm following an opposite trend, I'm trying to flatten
>> folders as possible and leverage more sorting to find files. I mean,
>> having 30 items in a folder is not so bad, more than 40 starts to hurt
>> both on a terminal and on screen.
>>
>> Anyways, I'm not fully against either, -0 for me.
>>   
> -1 for me, lets keep the split between library and plugin going on.
Ok, but i have about 3 other xml modules that I want to add. Right now
noone will care because they are in unsupported. When they moved to
supported half the modules will be xml ones.

> 
> Jody
> 
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-- 
Justin Deoliveira
The Open Planning Project
http://topp.openplans.org

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