On 22 Feb 2008, at 11:13, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
stephen white wrote:
I am repeatedly amazed at the number of people in here who keep
trying to set up groups, create specifications, write documentation,
write books, and do everything except actually work on GIS.
<snip>
Just an example, can you find easily how to start using GEOS
(http://geos.refractions.net) in your application?
Let's compare GIS stuff to Boost libraries. The latter does a lot of
very complex things and it's not a single but a set of libs,
so IMHO it's comparable to FOSS GIS libraries.
Now, check the Boost documentation:
http://boost.org/more/getting_started.html
http://boost.org/libs/libraries.htm
and show me equivalently well written docs for existing FOSS GIS
library(ies). :-)
To make the story short, IMHO we have almost *no* good
documentation for
FOSS GIS. It's a fun to hack the software but documenting it is
boring,
so nobody wants to do it, but we are in a bloody need for it ;-)
I don't think documenting GEOS will make it any better or easier to
use, but it will certainly highlight some serious design flaws.
Boost is not just a good documentation, it is also very elegant
beautiful code ;)
Stephen, you are spot on !
Too many managers, not enough workers. Nobody wants to be the
workers, so they set up committees, set up conferences, write
articles, and never actually pull their finger out and set finger to
keyboard (yeergh) for code.
Actually, I have completely opposite observations.
Hmm... Any stats ?
Greetings
--
Cheers
Artem
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net
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