Hello Levi, I'm re-directing your question to the user list where there has been recent discussion about this, including this post:
http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/gt-swing-module-tc6601383.html Apologies for the confusion caused by the tutorials not working properly with either the 8-M1 or 2.7.x versions. This is mostly my fault while the swing module is being rewritten, as described in the above post. I'm hoping that the module will be sufficiently stable again for another milestone release in the next week or so. However there is no firm timetable for this because it is almost all a spare time effort. For the same reason, I'm afraid that I'm unlikely to back port changes or fixes to the 2.7 branch, although I would be happy to provide advice if any volunteers step up to do that. To further complicate things for you and other new users, the GeoTools docs have recently been ported from the old wiki to the new sphinx-based pages. This was a mammoth effort done almost single-handedly by Jody Garnett. The actively maintained docs refer to the development version (GeoTools 8.0) rather than the stable branch (GeoTools 2.7). Once again, this is because almost all of the work is a spare time labour of love and we don't have the resources to do more. In summary: you are quite right that the docs, tutorials and example applications should reflect the stable branch and in an ideal world they would. But in this world they don't at the moment :) Michael On 12 August 2011 12:55, Levi Putna <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello list, > I have been working on the Eclipse Quickstart and hit a little problem with > MapContext and MapContent. > It seems that between 8.0-M1 and the current SNAPSHOT MapContext was > deprecated and JMapFrame.showMap() now takes a MapContent. The Quickstart > instructions reflect the correct way to do things using the SNAPSHOT however > the don't work with 8.0-M1 (The version they tell you to use). It was my > understanding that the docks and tutorials are meant to reflect the way we > use the current stable release not the snapshot. Am I correct in this > thinking? > In the interest of keeping tutorials up to date is it worth saying that they > will always work off the SNAPSHOT not current stable release? Or > do tutorials only need to be updated as a release us made? > I am only new to the project so I may just be confusing myself. Thoughts and > clarifications would be appreciated. > Thanks, > Mr Levi Putna > [email protected] > www.ozblog.com.au > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, > user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take > the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the > tools developers use with it. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
