I cannot think of a way around this; I will note that the docs are published
with the release - so the 8.0-M1 docs should be available for download.
We could also underline the fact that these docs are tested with 8-SNAPSHOT
(something along the line of "if you are following along from our website
....").
--
Jody Garnett
On Friday, 12 August 2011 at 2:11 PM, Michael Bedward wrote:
> 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]
> (mailto:[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] (mailto:[email protected])
> > www.ozblog.com.au (http://www.ozblog.com.au)
> >
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