[geotk] what about pending modules?

[johann sorel]

  Hello,

The modules in pending have various quality levels.
Modules will be promoted in geotoolkit when they will have :
- complete javadoc
- complete tests
- code review from martin

All modules in pending can be used, they all work but the api may change
with time, we do not keep for a very long time deprecated methods in 
pending.
The reason behind this choice is all the related sub-projects : 
puzzle-gis, constellation,
mapfaces, mdweb. All the "neutral" code is merged in pending : parsers, 
utilities, bindings,
widgets... As a result sub projects are getting smaller and have greater 
interoperability.
puzzle-gis is a good exemple, it has only ~25.000 code lines and focuses 
only on the platform
integration part.
Merging all thoses different needs takes time, and geotoolkit is still 
young.

In any case I think you can use pending, no big api changes happened in 
the last months,
we can say it's stable.

johann



Le 08/09/2010 18:14, G. Allegri a écrit :
> I've come to know about Geotoolkit a few weeks ago. I usually have
> seen Geotools adopted by the main GIS softwares, but I've got in touch
> with Puzzle-GIS and I disovered GeoTk through it.
> I've read its API and I was quite astonished having not seen any
> typical module to deal with Features, DataStores, etc., then my
> attention ahs fallen on the "pending" word, and all that stuff has
> appeared. Now I wonder: when will those modules be released as
> official and stable?
>
> I see that you provide a Maven repo (but not a maven archetype yet,
> rigth?) and some bundles, comrpising a pending-bundle. I would like to
> test the widest set of modules available, should I set up my own pom
> to build a complete geotk bundle?
>
> Thanks very much for the attention, and I wish you all the best for
> this project!
> Giovanni
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