Andrea Aime a écrit :
> 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.

Yes I agree. If the suggested cure was the complete removal of GDAL modules, I 
didn't realized that. As far as I known, Johan was only concerned by the 
dependencies that appears in "render".


>> "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.

I was talking about the "imageio-ext" project on dev.java.net, not the 
unsupported modules in GeoTools SVN.

        Martin

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