Hi all, here is just my USER perspective on the ongoing prefix removal.
I not use maven for my project(s). I have always had a little ant script for downloading the required GT jars and dependencies (like uDig did) and have thrown them in one flat directory too. This has worked nicely so far until now. As expected I run into the same trouble as Jody did today. Of course I can rename the artefacs while downloading them with ant. BUT: Since GT has no more milestone releases and the only thing the end user sees from the GT2.5 branch are the snapshots there is no way for such end user of telling which jar is supposed to get which prefix attached in the later release (gt- or gt2- or gt-lib or gt-xsd or gt-whatsover). You will know but I don't. By the way: I don't know any other project whose jars are named differently in the maven repositories and in the release ... which is what is intended currently if I understand the mails correctly. I find this plainly irritating. So I wonder: - Do you really expect every user to use maven and actually build GT? - Or do you simply not expect end users to use the 2.5 branch at all? What about providing a separate location in an online repository where the GT shapshot jars can be found with names similar to how they will appear in the final release (i.e not conflicting with each other and other dependencies)? This would be my idea how to solve this in the most simple way. Have a nice weekend. Matthias Basler -- Matthias Basler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
