hello all, apologies for the intrusion on the list but may i suggest an alternative to simply removing those extensions which could be a potential source of funding for the GeoServer developers: grade the extensions, say into three levels of quality (high, medium, and low) and continue publishing them. users can then judge for themselves and would know what to expect if they find a bug. this of course depends on a minimal level of functionalities these extensions should have --beyong getting compiled without errors :-)
later on, and on regular basis you could study the download figures and a decision to retire or change the grade of extensions can be made. On Thursday 19 March 2009 19:53:11 Andrea Aime wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to propose the removal of GML and VPF extensions > from the GeoServer downloads. The rationale is as follows: > - afaik, they do not work properly (for sure the GML one > does not) > - the datastores have been un-maintained for a long time > - we cannot really provide any decent support on them > - they have been there for years already in that state, > and no one from outside the project stepped up to > actually provide maintenance > > I guess we should point people to ogr2ogr as a tool > to convert both formats into something (shapefile, postgis) > that can actually be used for efficient web serving. > > Opinions? > Cheers > Andrea cheers; rsn
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