Rémi, > About license : > if you use GPL function, your code becomes GPL, this might be a problem if > using it inside company. > If you use LGPL, you can do basically what you want.
I think about going like Mateusz and Stephen suggested. What do you think? > Using PostGIS everyday, I already find it hard to find the functions I need. I > feel there is no point to provide additionnal functions if you have to know > them to use them. Every function is preceded with a description of the parameters and a self-contained and a typical example. The question is: Should this documentation be: 1) embedded in the .sql file 2) in the readme 3) in the wiki? for now I thought that embedding it in the file, beside the code, with a quick list at the beginning like the one in the PostGIS doc, was the most simple way. > Say I'm developping and I need a function, how would I know you have a > function I might use, by searching trough all the functions name? You look in the quick list at the beginning. > I understand your maintenance concern, yet it could be mandatory to > document new function in markdown or in wiki when someone contribute, > thus eanbling a google search. It could be. I tried to put as less barrier as possible to new contributors. > About test : Your idea being more for users than regular developpers, how > to ensure quality. There is a .sql test file to be executed manually. Please give it a try. > I may be totally wrong, but I fear it will become like many open source > graveyard of non-maintained poorly written functions (I include myself in > people whose code have to be reviewed). I engage to be the guardian of quality for a while. Hopefully you're wrong and I suggest you be the first contributor... ;-) For myself I had most of those functions written since a while and they were spread in many files. I had to clean them so they are easier to find and install for my users. Pierre _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users