Re: [Geotools-devel] 2.1 versus 2.2 branch

[James M. <jma...@gm...>]

On 8/31/05, db...@op... <db...@op...> wrote:
> >I don't think anyone is adding new functionality to 2.1, Dave was
> working
> >on some optimizations for label rendering (the bug being speed
> of course).
>=20
> I did a lot more than that.  The renderer's mostly been rewritten - its
> old state was too difficult to maintain, so I refactored big chunks of
> it (there's still lots more to do). =20

And that is where the problem is, that is way more than bug fixing and
should not have been hapening on the 2.1 branch.  2.1 is supposed to
be in maintance mode pending 2.1.1, instead it has a new renderer.  It
is known that the renderer is in a mess and I have been doing some
(small) refactoring work againt the one on 2.2 and thinking about
larger changes, I guess I have to throw that away :(

>I'd like to get rid of a bunch of
> crap in it, but someone might be using it so people say i cannot remove
> it.
The crap can be depricated on trunk but not on the 2.1 branch, we can
do a big cleanup once development moves back to trunk.  I am working
to keep the trunk stable and to make the build process faster, so it
should be a happy place to work!

Lets try to keep commits against 2.1 to a minimum and look at how we
can improve the trunk development process.

James