Many thanks for the update Fernando. The development path that you describe sounds like a good choice. I'll be following your progress with interest.
Michael On 6 December 2012 19:41, Fernando González <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, after some work on this line we are able to share some results. > > As expected, the task turned to be harder than expected (ha ha), and > after struggling with the more than one million lines of code in gvSIG > we arrived to a certain methodology that can be "described" and > followed by more than one person. Basically we have created a new > empty repository where user interface functionality (UI) is added > little by little from the old codebase and the old non-GUI calls are > replaced to calls to a new, in-progress Geotools-based library. You > can have more information here[1]. > > The bad thing is that we have a pretty empty gvSIG. The good thing is > that we have a gvSIG version that, although totally limited, can be > run from the beginning of the project, which is very important. > > Some of the old functionalities are very easy to include, some require > changes to the GT-based library and take more time. In any case, now > we can estimate roughly the cost of the integration since we have been > tracking the time spent and we know how many functionalities are still > to migrate. Anyway, we'll see how many people is interested on it > enough to give us a hand and share the effort. > > We have created a project on github that contains the work in > progress[2]. As it can be seen in the developer guide[3], a "git > clone" and a "mvn package" is enough to make it ready to run. You can > find some general description of the project here[4]. > > As for the future, note that there is no funding for this effort. But > at the gvSIG CE team we like a lot the idea of collaborating with > geotools, so we're investing some of our time in making this project > possible. Personally, my brother and I have already learned some > Geotools tricks so we already got something back :) > > I'll finish by thanking the geotools community for their hard work. > Recently I upgraded to 8.3 the geotools dependency on a personal > project and not only no test got broken, but some broken tests turned > green! Really a pleasure, keep rocking! > > Cheers. > > [1] http://gvsigce.blogspot.de/2012/11/geotools-integration-methodology.html > [2] https://github.com/gvtools/gvtools > [3] https://github.com/gvtools/gvtools/blob/master/doc/source/introduction.rst > [4] > https://github.com/gvtools/gvtools/blob/master/doc/source/developer_guide.rst > > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Fernando González <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Jody. Cool, I'm looking forward finishing the integration in order >> to add gvSIGCE to the list but note that success is not guaranteed at >> all in this first attempt. It's good because it's more thrilling! :) >> >> Cheers. >> >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Sounds like an interesting project. >>> >>> We of course are always keen to see adoption of GeoTools. If you would like >>> to add gvSIGCE to the list of projects on our website we ask for a small >>> "welcome page" introducing gvSIGCE developers to the GeoTools library. >>> >>> You can see a list of examples under "Welcome Developers" along the bottom >>> of this page: http://docs.geotools.org >>> >>> Cheers! >>> -- >>> Jody Garnett >>> >>> On Wednesday, 29 August 2012 at 1:49 AM, Fernando González wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, sorry if this is a bit offtopic. >>> >>> Some people around the gvSIGCE project are organizing a code sprint in >>> Munich[1] from the 15th to the 19th of October. >>> >>> For those who don't know, gvSIGCE[2] is a fork of gvSIG[3] and one of >>> the aims of the code sprint is to replace gvSIGCE data access layer, >>> one of the weakest points of gvSIG 1.x series, with Geotools. The >>> global aim is to rely on geotools as much as we can so that we can >>> benefit from it and try to contribute back. This means that if we >>> succeed on integrating GT on the data access layer we will likely try >>> to integrate with other parts of the library. >>> >>> So the point of my message: if any Geotools developer feels like >>> dropping by he/she will be very welcomed (which means some free beer, >>> for sure!). Don't hesitate to update the list of participants in the >>> wiki or asking me to do so. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Fernando. >>> >>> [1] >>> http://gvsigce.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/GvSIG_CE_Code_Sprint_in_Munich >>> [2] http://gvsigce.org/ >>> [3] http://www.gvsig.org/ >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Live Security Virtual Conference >>> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and >>> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. 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