Martin Desruisseaux ha scritto: > Hello all > > Just to brings my 2 cents. We have see with the "JAXB in metadata" topic that > managing dependencies is not an easy task, and we are still looking for a > solution to this JAXB issue (I have some idea along the line of splitting the > GeoTools project is a number of sub-projects). > > If I'm understanding right, the GDAL dependencies in "render" now appears > indirectly through Maven transitive dependencies. We could document that the > GDAL wrapper JAR can be deleted and the render will still work, but this is > not > obvious.
This is a bug in the dependencies of the renderer module that has to be fixed, but suggesting the removal of the gdal based module from GeoTools as a cure is an exageration. The deps must be fixed instead. > To make a comparaison (again) with metadata/referencing, few peoples > are aware that referencing can be used as a standalone module. It leads me > again > to the idea of splitting the GeoTools project in a number of sub-projects. I sort of agree on one side, since it's evident not all parts of gt2 move at the same speed, but makes me concerned quite a bit on the other, since it would make backporting patches harder, and would force us to deal with n projects each one depending on a snapshot of the others (much like GeoServer cannot depend on a stable release of gt2, but has to use snapshots instead). > "imageio-ext" is not a dependency like the other ones to us. Some libraries > like > Apache, JTS and Sun Microsystems are widely trusted (even if they still have > bugs). "imageio-ext" is a work in progress by what looks like a subset of the > GeoTools community (maybe I'm wrong - I don't know the list of contributors). > Being isolated on an external SVN, I don't think it has received the > reviewing > it would have got on GeoTools SVN (at least not from me - I don't know for > other). It's an unsupported module, that level of review is simply not required. If you believe it should, you should make up a proposal to change the rules of entry into gt2 and raise the bar for entry and have the PMC vote on it. Cheers Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
