Justin Deoliveira wrote: > 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. > Sounds great! Question is there any chance of combining the xml plugins? Ie GML2 and Filter 1.0 kind of work togther, same deal for GML3 and Filter 1.1... perhaps we could reduce the number of plugins by grouping compatible plugins together?
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