[fusion-dev] GeoExt

[Julien-Samuel Lacroix]

Hi,

I've been following GeoExt since the kick off IRC meeting and it seems 
great. We may have to wait to see the final product, but the main 
players all have a strong desire (Camptocamp, OpenGeo) to build a 
community project. They were both developping something on top of Ext 
and OL. Now they want to merge to build *the* mapping styling library, a 
bit like OpenLayers became *the* mapping-client library. In the long 
term, the MapFish team wants to replace the MapFish client with it.

Julien

Paul Spencer wrote:
> By way of doing some comparisons, I just built a minimal version of  Ext 
> using the builder and included things that I thought Jx+MooTools  
> provides, the condensed file size is 392 kb (a full build is 564kb)  
> while the jxlib build including a full MooTools + Extras (of which we  
> don't use everything) is 184kb.  I think I produced a very minimal  
> build of MooTools such that the combined jxlib and MooTools was about  
> 128 kb condensed, but the saving seemed minimal compared to not having  
> some of the MooTools stuff available for app development.
> 
> This being said, Ext probably has more functionality than jxlib has in  
> that build, but then I think MooTools has more functionality than Ext  
> has in that build too.
> 
> Not sure why I am rambling on about this ... size doesn't matter, right?
> 
> :)
> 
> Paul
> 
> On 11-Dec-08, at 8:49 PM, Paul Spencer wrote:
> 
>> I was just going to say the same thing then I saw this email :)  It  
>> will be interesting to see how it evolves, it provides a very nice  
>> look and feel for a quick mapping application that doesn't need any  
>> server-side dependencies.
>>
>> Personally, I find Ext quite heavy compared to Jx + MooTools but I  
>> haven't enough knowledge of it to state a strong opinion.  I get the  
>> impression that it is not that easy to customize the look and feel  
>> either, but I could be wrong - and it looks pretty sweet to start  
>> with ...
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 11-Dec-08, at 7:47 PM, Jason Birch wrote:
>>
>>> GeoExt is similar to Jx + the OL client portion of Fusion, GeoMoose,
>>> etc.  MapFish is a closer analogue to Fusion.
>>>
>>> I was about to say that because it is based on Ext it would have to  be
>>> GPLv3, but then found that ExtJS has exemptions in place for open  
>>> source
>>> libraries and applications that encapsulate it.  Didn't see that last
>>> time I looked.
>>>
>>> This is pretty cool:
>>>
>>> http://extjs.com/products/extjs/build/
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Zac Spitzer
>>> Subject: [fusion-dev] GeoExt
>>>
>>> Just saw this post on planet osgeo,
>>> http://mapfishblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/geoext-but-why.html
>>>
>>> Seems rather like Fusion, hmmm
>>>
>>> thoughts?
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>>
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