Michael Bedward ha scritto: > Hi Andrea, Jody, > > I'm back to doing a little work on the unsupported mappane module. > Your discussion of working towards a clean build for demos etc. makes > me wonder if mappane should be a module at all, or would be better > placed in demo itself. After all, on the user list and guide it's > consistently described as an example for users to study or take as a > starting point, rather than being a fully-fledged GeoTools component. > This implies that there will never be an effort to promote it to the > status of a supported module. That's perfectly fine but I can't see > the point in letting mappane languish in the unsupported bin > indefinitely because it gives users the impression that it is > intended, at some stage, to be more than a working example.
I wholeheartedly support this vision, if nobody intends to turn this into a supported module, then it better stay just as a demo. If, one day, someone comes in with an interest in doing the work required and really back it, then the code is still there, and we can bring it back to being a module. Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
