Hi Matthias, let me try to answer as much as I can, though certainly can't answer all your questions...
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 07:11:01 pm Matthias Basler wrote: > Hi GeoTools developers, > > today I checked the page http://geotools.codehaus.org/2.5.x that's strange. The authoritative url should be <http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/2.5.x>, which seems to work. geotools.org I always thought is a facade for the docs.codehaus one with added publicity and a css. I bet the codehaus guys were doing some maintainance, don't know. Yet, right now www.geotools.org goes to http://geotools.codehaus.org/, some paths are not working but I don't know how to fix it. For example, in the 2.5.x page, the Resources section's contents are shown through a wiki macro: {children:excerpt=true} > (on which I arrived via www.geotools.org) and tried to check the status of > Geotools 2.5 releases. > > First thing I noted is that all the "Resources" links don't work, > such as f.e. > http://geotools.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Upgrade+to+2.5 > or > http://geotools.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Implement+GeoAPI+Feature+Mode >l hmmm.. you better update your bookmark to point to <http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS> as the geotools home page, at least someone knows how to fix www.geotools.org. > > Could somebody please correct the link? > > P.S. What exactly do the red, yellow and green stars mean on this page? > There's no explaination! right, just updated the page with the appropriate legend. The stars are meant to show at a first glance the progress level of each initiative > > Also I noted that the first and only 2.5 milestone was 4 months ago and I > wonder if it is still of any use for trying to updating an application to > the new GeoAPI Feature Model in order to get some practice with it. > > Is there a schedule for 2.5m1 already? I believe I read something on the > mailing list, but coudn't find it any more. (And Nabble is on maintenance > and cannot help me searching either.) don't really know, there's much stuff going on on trunk so we should try to release asap. Releases are generally in sync with a uDig or geoserver milestone. > > Ultimately I ask because my company is considering upgrading GT from a > rather dusted version to 2.5 with the new Feature Model and Java5, and we > wonder if it is realistic to assume that if we start building our > application around GT2.5 now then in one year or so by the time our > application is to be released GT2.5 is stable enough for production use. If > this sounds totally unrealistic, then we'll have to check if upgrading to > GT2.4 and to 2.5 later is worth the double effort or if we should better > postphone the update. I'll let others answer this one. Personally, I think it should be good enough a year from now, and I'm finding working with trunk more pleasant than 2.4. But can't really give you a definite answer as its true working on trunk brings a certain risk. If you expect to work with general Features that's quite immature yet, like in we have the feature model in place but nothing really using it yet. If you're going to stick to SimpleFeature you should be gold, all the codebase already switched to geoapi SimpleFeature/SimpleFeatureType. Gabriel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
