From: Adrian C. <ac...@gm...> - 2008-05-15 09:22:18
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On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 16:20 -0700, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > I finally got the export of a PDF version of the GeoTools developer > guide to work after singing up with Codehaus. Perhaps we should add a > note indicating that the document conversion will only work for > registered users of the site? Just a thought... > > I noted that the chapters of the exported PDF seem to be all mixed up. > For example, chapter 8 and chapter 9 come before chapter 1. I'm not > sure if this is intentional, but I thought I would mention it. I > realize PDF may not be the preferred form of documentation for the > GeoTools Project, but I like it. :] Bug filed *long* ago on Codehaus. > > After skimming the developer's guide, I still have a couple of > questions. I'd like to ask them here, even though I didn't read EVERY > page of the Developer Guide in excrutiating detail. Please forgive me > for my laziness. :] > > Here are my questions: > > [1] The Developer's Guide mentions the procedures one would go trough > to add a third party JAR to GeoTools. However, I didn't see any > instructions on when the addition of a third party library is > acceptable. Is there a criteria that I can use to determine this, or > would I just propose the dependency on the mailing list? I would > imagine there would be a desire to keep the number of dependencies to > a minimum, thought I could be incorrect about this. Yes, new dependencies are generally discussed at length in our weekly irc meetings. Given the diversity of our community there's always objections to new dependencies but sometimes those objections prove really useful and help us keep geotools as generic as possible. > > [2] Where would I find a list of third party JARS already included as > a dependency in GeoTools? The Developer's Guide mentioned this site: > http://mvnrepository.com/. I'm not sure if that is what I am really > looking for. Isn't that a list of all the Jars in some type of global > Maven repository? GeoTools certainly doesn't depend on all of those, I > would hope. Is there another list of required libraries for just > GeoTools? I hope this question makes sense, as I am not a Maven > user...yet. Build geotools and see what's in $BUILD_DIR/target? > > [3] I can't seem to find the current version of Java that GeoTools > supports/requires. Where would I find this information? Is there a > policy for when the library upgrades to a new JRE? already answered elsewhere --adrian |