On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds like an interesting contribution and I would be happy to review :-) > I am a bit worried about test cases in groovy; on a project as large[1] as > this it can get intimidating for > others to work on we starting mixing languages up on the fly.
Agree. I don't mind about an extra test dependency, even if one as large as the Groovy runtime (5.5MB?) certainly raises eyebrowses. I'm worried about starting to mix languages, that would raise the bar for long term maintainership of the project a lot. For example we have a core contributor, Justin, that likes Jython, and other people like David that like Scala instead, and even others Javascript in the JVM. If we allowed to freely mix languages we'd quickly end up with a good amount of chaos The GeoScript project builds on top of the geotools library providing bindings for various languages, including Groovy: http://geoscript.org/groovy/ If your preferred language is Groovy you can provide contribution there without having to translate them back into Java, I guess that might be easier for you and a natural fit for the geoscript community? If instead you really want to contribute to GeoTools this could be an unsupported module, out of the build by default until it gets full Java? Just thinking aloud and expressing my personal opinion, there is other people around in the project that might feel otherwise. Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
