I am definitely interested. I'm just confused as to why put it in Contrib? Any breaking changes in the NH trunk would have to be fixed in Contrib, and you're going to always have the mismatch between Contrib and NH trunk. Also you have the awkwardness of having to use Spatial dialects, which means you can't use any other library that requires its own dialect.
For example, its going to be very difficult to support Linq in Spatial without being able to directly reference spatial from the Linq provider, which is now in NH itself. Linq as I'm sure you know converts the user's input into an expression tree, and the expression tree walker would need awareness of Spatial in order to know that calling, say, .STIntersects on a GeoAPI object should correlate to a certain sort of query. Spatial doesn't seem to be enough of a "separate project" to be put in NHContrib, if you want it to work as well as NHibernate itself does. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Fabio Maulo <[email protected]> wrote: > Spatial, as others prjs are part of Contrib and will be part of Contrib. > Perhaps it was one of the best decisions took some years ago. > If you are really interested in develop it and maintain it multi-RDBMS, let > us know. > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:46 PM, David Pfeffer <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Who is working on NHibernate Spatial? It appears to have been dormant >> for nearly 9 months now. >> Why is NHibernate Spatial not part of NHibernate itself, but instead >> part of NHContrib? >> >> I'd be happy to take over working on NHibernate Spatial if it has been >> dropped or contribute substantial assistance if there is someone still >> actively maintaining it. There's a lot of work left to do, and I'm >> using NHibernate Spatial extensively in a project that currently has >> an indefinite ending (-- for a startup company, so either it will die >> in a year or two or else I'll be doing this for a very long time). For >> example, I'd like to see LINQ support for spatial as well as proper >> support for the SQL Server coordinate ordering format. (The latter >> being a huge pain point for me.) >> >> I haven't worked on large open source project in about 5 years now, >> but the last time I did I found it to be very rewarding. Considering >> in this instance it makes a lot of sense for my start-up for me to >> actively see NHibernate Spatial get developed, and it could be fun, it >> seems win-win. >> >> Thanks, >> David >> >> >> -- >> Subscription settings: >> http://groups.google.com/group/nhibernate-development/subscribe?hl=en >> > > > > -- > Fabio Maulo > >
