[SoC] Re: Request for views on the proposal on pgRouting project.

[Stephen Woodbridge]

I would like to hear from Daniel on his thoughts on this. My first 
thought is that pgRouting basically has two components:

plpgsql code that wraps calls to the lower level C/C++ code that 
implements the guts of the graph building and analysis.

It sounds like Jatin's proposal is to build a new project based on Java 
that implements graph analysis in PostgreSQL similar in nature to what 
pgRouting is doing today. I think this makes good sense for supporting 
the Java based projects that Alex mentioned. If this is the case, then 
I'm not sure how much help a pgRouting mentor will be, but I could be 
wrong on this. I'm also not sure that it makes sense to pre-condition 
Jatin's project with what may or may not be good design decision for 
C/C++ vs Java as I suspect the integration issues will vary greatly.

Alex - thank you for your suggestion on other projects that might be 
interested.

Daniel - please chime in when you have a chance.

Wolf - I think your help co-ordinating might be very helpful.

-Steve

Wolf Bergenheim wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 20:59, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>> This sounds like it might be a good joint project with gvSig,UDig or
>> OpenJump integration of pgRouting, all are Java implementations of GIS
>> and UDig is closely tied to the origins of postgis.
>>
>> I'm not sure who has volunteered to mentor from those projects but it
>> wouldn't hurt to ask around. This might be a good 2 mentor project.
>>
> 
> Yes very nice. One pgRouter and one UDig mentor would be very nice! I
> can help in the co-ordination if needed.
> 
> --Wolf
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