[OSGeo-Discuss] New Project.

[Schuyler Erle]

* On  1-Mar-2007 at  2:11AM PST, Cameron Shorter said:
> 
> Where possible, common libraries should be extracted from projects, 
> allowing developers to focus on other problems.
> However, emotionally it is hard to merge two or more projects. If two 
> projects merge together, roughly half of each project code should be 
> thrown away.
> 
> As Chris noted, Mapbuilder is in the process of merging OpenLayers into 
> its codebase. This involves throwing away a lot of our original code, 
> but at the same time, makes Mapbuilder a more robust product because we 
> can focus on other areas.

And by that same token, we've tried very hard to make it possible to
separate out only the pieces of OpenLayers you want, and leave out the
parts you don't.

SDE