[geotk] Geot 3.21 release, and moving to 4.x

[Martin Desruisseaux]

Hello all

Geotk 3.21 has been released and is available both on the Maven 
repository and the following download page:

    http://download.geotoolkit.org/3.21/


There is no significant change in the "core" part of Geotk, because the 
work shifted to Apache SIS (more on it below). For this reason, Geotk 
3.21 for GeoAPI 3.0.0 has not been deployed on Maven Central. However, 
Geotk-pending still have work in it.

On the Mercurial repositories, the following changes has been applied:

  * A new "3.x" branch has been created.
  * Version number upgraded from "3.x-SNAPSHOT" to "4.x-SNAPSHOT" on the
    "default" branch.


The 4.x series will have the following changes:

  * Classes that moved from Geotk to Apache SIS will be deprecated in
    Geotk 4.x, then removed in a future 4.x release. In many cases (but
    not all), the transition is simply to rename the packages
    "org.geotoolkit" to "org.apache.sis" in the import statements. In
    some cases however some cleaning work has been done.
  * At some later point in the 4.x series, the Geotk and Geotk-pending
    repositories will be merged.


The above apply only to the "default" branch. The "3.x" branch will stay 
mostly unchanged except for occasional bug fixes, so users who prefer 
stability can stay on the "3.x" series. Note however that we expect most 
work to happen on the "4.x" series.

Is there any questions or concerns? Please let us know if you have any.

     Martin

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