Hey Andrea. Personally, I would be fine with all of our extensions shipped as part of core, so I'm not complaining! :)
But if GDAL jars are bundled with core, then we don't really need a GDAL extension, do we? I would say that we should not have a "blank" (no jar) extension, but just have better docs (which I am writing now)... Thanks, Mike Pumphrey OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Andrea Aime wrote: > Mike Pumphrey ha scritto: >> Just a quick sanity check, but was the GDAL extension bundled with >> RC1? I see a bunch of jars called: >> >> imageio-ext-gdal*.jar >> >> and I'm positive I didn't install the GDAL extension on RC1, yet there >> those data sources are... > > The imageio-ext jars have been in the GeoServer release for quite some > time, even in 1.7.x, as someone added them as a dependency to the mosaic > plugin, and by transitive means they ended up being a dependency for > the core GeoServer we're shipping. > > I personally don't mind having them in core actually, since they won't > activate until the correspondent native parts are included in the > JDK/JRE running GeoServer. But it's just me, what do others think? > > If we keep them we should amend the documentation as the extensions > would be empty (not jars). I guess the download link should just point > to a doc page explaining what binaries to download from imageio-ext > project, and where to place them. > > Cheers > Andrea > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
