On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Adrian Custer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Andrea, > > I happened to notice you added imageio-ext to the build. It's cool that > we can build without GDAL but unfortunately, for the reasons explained > below, I have reverted that change on trunk at revision 31151. I expect > that you will have to do the same on the 2.5 branch prior to release > but, since that is critical for your work, I'll leave you to do the > change when it works for you. > > > As I understood things, the imageio-ext was isolated to a build profile > for as long as it would take for the imageio-ext project to mature. Then > we planned to have a formal review of that dependency like all the > others and after that include it formally in Geotools. Unfortunately, > this work is not yet done. > > Critically, a quick perusal of all the code files in imageio-ext shows > that it's illegal for us to use. Legally we don't have the right even to > read certain files (PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL) and there's at least one > other issue I saw that makes it impossible for us to simply include in > our build. That stuff will have to be cleared up in a convincing way.
Could you please share with the enthusiastic imageio-ext developers what do you mean by "there's at least one other issue I saw that makes it impossible for us to simply include in our build"? > > Hopefully, imageio-ext will undergo a formal review of its own, clean up > what needs cleaning, and make an initial release when it's ready. After > that, Geotools will be able to consider the formal dependency. In general, I would suggest as a good practice the following procedure: 1> communication 2> actions unless you have somehow obtained the rights to take any action you want without asking the other project members. Ciao, Simone. > > For now we are stuck adding a -Pgdal flag to the build. > > --adrian > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > -- ------------------------------------------------------- Eng. Simone Giannecchini President /CEO GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Carignoni 51 55041 Camaiore (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584983027 fax: +39 0584983027 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
