Jody Garnett ha scritto: > Andrea Aime wrote: >>> It is too bad I was not able to quantify the difference in needs >>> between GeoServer and uDig - it is mostly an "ease of use" thing - >>> basically uDig requires a plug-in to work out of the box and provide >>> errors/warnings in a form that do a casual user some good. >> Hum, do you mean the exception error messages to be used as user >> messages? > That is part of it ... it really comes down to "ease of use"; uDig > expects things to work out of the box, and perform at interactive > speeds. If they do not providing error messages in a form a normal > person can understand is a distance second priority. An error message > about connection pools is not going to help for example, and error > message that explains what went wrong and some steps you could consider > when fixing it would.
Yeah, usually we don't write error messages for an interactive dialog box, but only as a reference in a log file. I never made java exception messages pop up to the user in my interactive apps. > In terms of specifics ...you know how GeoServer extends plugins a degree > of trust (that the quality is good enough that you can handle the > support emails?). uDig has the same tradeoff but our user community is > different. I don't really think we have a formal procedrue. It's about user asking for them I guess, if a plugin stays long enough in the extra ones and does not cause much troubles, I think it gets promoted to the standard distribution. Not sure thought, Chris? 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 Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
