From: Andrea A. <and...@ge...> - 2012-06-25 09:11:51
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Michael Bedward <mic...@gm...>wrote: > On 25 June 2012 16:12, Andrea Aime <and...@ge...> wrote: > > Err... there must have been some other problem before that, because > > VolatileFunction concept has been added a bit more than a year ago, Feb 3 > > 2011 > > > > Hi Andrea, > > The fact that Tom didn't know about it is not surprising. I suspect > GeoTools Functions are an example of where the knowledge gap between > core developers and average users is very large. > > There is relatively little in the docs yet about Functions compared to > other parts of the library. For example, VolatileFunction doesn't > appear anywhere in the user guide and although it has good javadocs > (thanks to you) you have to know that it exists (and why) to be > reading them. > > No criticism intended in the above. > No problem, it's fair and square. Just wanted to point out VolatileFunction has been out for only 1 year 4 months so it cannot possibly have stopped Tom for 2 whole years, there must have been something else before that. Besides, the simplification of non volatile functions is off by default on the stable series, it has been enabled by default only in trunk Cheers Andrea > > Michael > -- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 mob: +39 339 8844549 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf |