[postgis-devel] Location Of LWAlgorithms

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Obe, Regina wrote:

> I really like the naming convention idea but as far as bunching up I'm 
> almost thinking GASP - a separate file for each public function, a file 
> for shared functions that are reused across but not public.  like an 
> lwsimplify.c kind of like we have lwgeom_kml.c, lwgeom_transform.c, in 
> the lwgeom folder.   But I guess that could  become silly given the 
> number of functions we have.

-100

I think if we did this the maintenance overhead of liblwgeom would 
quadruple overnight as we'd have to spend considerably more time 
managing header files.

> I guess my thinking is in mapserver there is a natural workflow. 
> Everything is working to make a map and every element in the mapserver 
> hierarchy plays a fairly unique well-defined role where as in PostGIS, 
> there is no defined workflow to my knowledge and each geometry plays the 
> same role - to be stuffed in a meat grinder device of sorts.

+100

In Mapserver, the code layout is strongly influenced by its object 
hierarchy. And as you correctly point out, PostGIS really has no such 
concept.


ATB,

Mark.

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