Martin Desruisseaux wrote: > Justin Deoliveira a écrit : > >> Doing the 2.5.0 release i ran into a minor issue with the newly added >> imagemosaic-jdbc module. It depends on gt-coverageio which is >> unsupported. So to include it in the release we would have to include >> coverageio... which goes against our plan of excluding unsupported modules. >> Thanks for finding this issue Justin. We already have a few unsupported modules in our build in the form of the xsd generated models; so we are already making some concessions along these lines. The important part is the PMC consider what is going into the release and be happy with it (and willing to commit to its continued existence; or at least take the trouble to kick it out if it is neglected). > The issue depends on which part of coverageio is used exactly: > * If this is "image metadata", then this part may change. It requires > agreement between different ImageReader potential implementors. > * If this is "image mosaic", then this part is expected stable now. > * If this is the abstract "GeographicImageReader" base class, then > I do not expect change in this class neither. > > Possible approachs: > > * Graduate parts of the "coverageio" module, exclusing among others the > "Image I/O metadata" part. I think that it would be premature to graduate > the whole coverageio in public API, but we may graduate selected parts of > it depending on user need. > > or > > * Apply a small amendment to our policy. Instead of saying "stable module > can not depends on unsupported module", we could said "this module > (gt-coverageio) is not public - it does not appear in the javadoc and > users should not be aware of it, unless they can afford changes in the > API. However whatever a supported module use it or not is implementation > details that users don't need to know." > The imagemoasic-jdbc module could also copy the classes it needs for the life of the 2.5.x branch.... Jody
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