[Featureserver] [dev] why not PCL?

[Howard Butler]

Eric,

I can't speak for the developers, but here are some of my thoughts  
why FeatureServer doesn't build on PCL:

- License.  FeatureServer is BSD and PCL introduces a GPL dependency
- Dependencies.  A fully featured PCL can be a beast to acquire all  
of the dependencies for.  FeatureServer attempts to give you  
something useful with a stock Python
- PCL is a framework, and FeatureServer only aspires to be a blob of  
really useful code.  PCL's emphasis is as much about 'how' it does  
stuff as 'what' it does.  FeatureServer doesn't currently concern  
itself with such heady stuff.

I myself would like to see FeatureServer integrate (optionally)  
integrate with some of the other libraries that are out there in  
Python land.  Django's URL dispatching for one would be a natural  
integration.  RTree and OWSLib would be two others in the PCL family  
that don't have GPL requirements that could provide a lot of  
functionality.

Howard

On Jul 5, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Eric Lemoine wrote:

> Hello
>
> I've just taken a look at the FeatureServer code and it seems to me
> that FeatureServer reimplements a couple of things already in PCL
> <http://trac.gispython.org/projects/PCL/wiki>: GeoJSON, PostGis
> backend, Feature model, etc. Are there good reasons not to rely on
> PCL?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Eric
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