Martin Desruisseaux ha scritto:
> I'm posting this email on the GeoTools mailing list in case peoples missing 
> it 
> from the GeoAPI mailing list.
> 
> Last week, I posted an annoucement saying that I was planning to split GeoAPI 
> in 
> two modules. I waited one week in case someone would object. Since I got no 
> objection, I plan to process today. If there is objections, please let me 
> known.
> 
> The current geoapi module would contain only metadata & referencing 
> interfaces, 
> together with their dependencies. They are the target for the OGC Standard 
> Working group. Other interfaces will move to a new "geoapi-pending" module 
> and 
> will be submited to OGC SWG in a future round.
> 
> For GeoTools, there is no impact (if you don't build GeoAPI yourself from 
> SVN) 
> as long as we don't deploy the snapshot. If we decide to deploy the snapshot, 
> the only impact for GeoTools will be to add the following lines in the root 
> pom.xml:
> 
>        <dependency>
>          <groupId>org.opengis</groupId>
>          <artifactId>geoapi-pending</artifactId>
>          <version>2.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
>        </dependency>
> 
> An alternative is to increase the version number to 2.3 so we are sure to not 
> impact any current user.

Given the kind of change it seems sensible to pop up the number to 2.3?
In many ways this seems to represent the beginning of a different way of
managing GeoApi, from consesus based on a mailing list to something 
managed the OGC ways, with committees, in person meetings and so on.

Cheers
Andrea

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Andrea Aime
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
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