[Geotools-devel] GeoWidgets SVN - spike!

[Jody G. <jga...@re...>]

Matthias Basler wrote:

> 1. News:
> During the last two weeks I overhauled the existing CRS assembly widgets:

That is great - congrats!

> 2. SVN?
> This means I would be willing to submit the code to a SVN. If you don't mind I
> would like to store the code separate from the GeoTools trunk for three
> reasons:
> - It gives me the reason to release independently from GeoTools
>   and you need not wait for me to be ready with releases.
> - The codebase is completely written in Java1.5
> - People downloading GeoTools are not necessarily interested in GeoWidgets.

All of those reasons make sense - you make notice that geotools/spike is 
designed with this idea in mind. I am currently hacking on the Java 5 
based gtapi "project". If it goes well we can all start to move in the 
direction of the geoapi interfaces....

> Since I am a novice I would need advice how to set up the project correctly.
> Especially since I want to make checking out and building GeoWidgets as easy as
> possible for Eclipse users (Lets say, at least as easy as for uDig.)

Right now gtapi is just "there", you can check it out as a "Project" in 
eclipse and work on it. GeoServer also works in this fashion.

However there is a down side, Maven is much better at allowing projects 
to work together then Eclipse is. You will notice that uDig goes to a 
lot of trouble to have a custom build.xml file run that downloads the 
correct jars from the maven repository. There is stronger integration of 
Maven for Eclipse available - but nobody has had the spare afternon to 
check it out.

> I will try to attend the IRC tomorrow, in case you feel we should discuss this
> there.

The perfect venue.

Jody