[fusion-dev] GeoExt

[Paul Spencer]

Thanks Julien,

I've joined the mailing list to stay abreast of what is happening  
there, they have an impressive set of developers already interested  
and I am sure it will advance quickly.

Paul


On 12-Dec-08, at 10:23 AM, Julien-Samuel Lacroix wrote:

> 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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