Okay that is clear. It still feels odd to drop a plugin that way; I
would feel safer moving them to unsupported for 2.5.x and dropping
them (and perhaps everything else we do not use) on 2.6.x.

Jody

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Simone Giannecchini
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> I second your suggestion aaime. In case it is needed svn is our friend.
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> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Andrea Aime <aa...@opengeo.org> wrote:
>> Jody Garnett ha scritto:
>>>> modules/unsupported/mif *
>>>> modules/unsupported/tiger *
>>>> modules/unsupported/vpf *
>>>>
>>>> If you don't want any of the above modules to be removed please speak up 
>>>> now.
>>>
>>> I have heard of some of these being useful over the years; but yeah cut 
>>> scope.
>>
>> I agree, yet those did not receive any work in years...
>> yet, if nobody steps up to keep them up they are just sucking up
>> maintenance time each time we do an API change.
>> It would make more sense, maintenance effort wise, and OSGEO
>> participation wise, to invest in the OGR module instead, even
>> if it relies on native libraries.
>> I would prefer pure java if it was possible, but given the choice
>> between code that we cannot support and one that uses native
>> libraries, but that builds on top of a separate team that keeps
>> the vector access code up to date, well, my vote goes for
>> the second.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
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