[geos-devel] RE: [jts-devel] The future of JTS and GEOS

[Martin Davis]

> The point I want to make, is that I think GEOS is worthwhile 
> because of it it's relative ease of porting using a variety 
> of compilers.  

I agree...  While GCJ is great where it fits, there's still a clear use
for a cross-platform standalone C++ library.  

Martin Davis, Senior Technical Architect
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com] 
> Sent: March 9, 2005 9:20 AM
> To: JTS Topology Suite Development
> Subject: Re: [jts-devel] The future of JTS and GEOS
> 
> 
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:07:20 -0800, Martin Davis 
> <mbdavis at vividsolutions.com> wrote:
> > As Dave B points out, JTS is continuing to evolve and GEOS 
> I suspect 
> > is falling behind.  It's going to take some dedicated 
> effort to keep 
> > them both in synch.  Obviously GEOS is viable on its own at this 
> > point; whether it continues to track JTS will really be decided by 
> > whoever has funding and/or time to contribute.
> 
> Martin, 
> 
> As someone not contributing in any meaningful way, I hesitate 
> to dump in my opinion, but I am personally planning to keep using 
> GEOS rather than a .obj version of JTS, for the forseeable 
> future. Mostly this is because I am generally afraid of the 
> extra build and runtime complexity of the gcj solution (even 
> more afraid when I 
> read yesterday that the very latest point rev of gcj is required!). 
> 
> The point I want to make, is that I think GEOS is worthwhile 
> because of it it's relative ease of porting using a variety 
> of compilers.  I can live with GEOS falling behind JTS in 
> terms of features, as long as 
> the core operations and predicates work dependably and with at
> least reasonable speed.   
> 
> How did this discussion end up being on the JTS list instead 
> of the GEOS list? 
> 
> > Or perhaps we should all put our effort into encouraging 
> the GCJ folks 
> > to support more platforms... 8^)
> 
> Perhaps, but it seems unlikely we will be in a position to 
> help them do this and no one likes folks just piping up 
> demands stuff when they can help.  (Hey ... I resemble that remark!)
> 
> Best regards,
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