Nope, it is just the symptom of an improvement. The .fix file is an old geotools specific trick to keep feature ids stable in face of feature deletion. The file is not actually needed until you edit the shapefile, but once it's there the reader has to assume it contains the feature id mappings and has to open it and scan it along with the .shx, .shp, .dbf and .qix. The shapefile store on trunk is just a little less clueless than it was and avoids creating the .fix file until it's actually needed
Cheers Andrea On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au> wrote: > I just committed some changes in app-schema to trunk and stable > (GEOT-3217, Tara Athan's shapefile handling fixes). Since these changes, > running the gt-app-schema tests on stable results in this file being > created (an index, perhaps): > > modules/library/sample-data/src/main/resources/org/geotools/test-data/shapes/archsites.fix > > This behaviour does not occur on trunk, and the file does not exist. > app-schema is almost identical on stable and trunk, as we backport > pretty much everything. > > Andrea, you have been working a lot on shapefile support. Any idea why > this happens on stable and not on trunk? Automatic index generation > turned on by default? > > It is going in my .gitignore, but it might indicate a problem. > > Kind regards, > > -- > Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au> > Software Engineering Team Leader > CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering > Australian Resources Research Centre > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime Senior Software Engineer GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584962313 fax: +39 0584962313 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel