On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Michael Bedward <[email protected]> wrote: > That's fine. > > The problem with "interesting work" in the coverage module is that > little of it gets out to the wider user community.
Drawing from past experience also the referencing subsystem was impenetrable to users until Jody wrote the CRS class. The XML encoding/decoding subsystem is equally hard, but the GML facade helps a lot there too. Both system remain quite hard to use for whoever needs to drill down, but the facades get the majority of people working. That's why I was suggesting having wrappers both way, you get the simplicity of the new API but also real world usefulness from day one, and also build on a system that while complex and in sore need of better API has proven to work on the field and to scale up. It's ugly, it's hard, but it's also fast and solid, that's what defines "useful" to me. Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
