Re: [Geoserver-users] Clone the Geoserver 2.9.0 in Github

2017-05-06 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Peter, later releases have bug fixes (including fixes for vulnerabilities) and new features. Vulnerabilities are often announced in release blogs, but not fixed for unsupported releases. The 2.10.x and 2.11.x series are supported. Is there any reason why you cannot start from the latest 2.11.0

Re: [Geoserver-users] Clone the Geoserver 2.9.0 in Github

2017-05-06 Thread peter james
Thanks for your information,yes we need exactly 2.9.0.What will be the benefit if I use a later build from the 2.9.x branch? and how can i make changes to GeoTools?what is the procedure for the same?. On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > Peter, > > if you are going to be

Re: [Geoserver-users] Clone the Geoserver 2.9.0 in Github

2017-05-06 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Peter, if you are going to be making changes, then I strongly recommend using the git approach I described below to make a new branch based on the 2.9.0 tag. You may also need to perform the same procedure for GeoTools 15.0 if you need to make changes to GeoTools (GeoServer 2.9.0 includes GeoT

Re: [Geoserver-users] Clone the Geoserver 2.9.0 in Github

2017-05-05 Thread peter james
Hi, Am trying to modify the geoserver 2.9.0 source code in our local system for some of the changes. On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > Peter, > > why would you want to do this? You can get the same source with "git > checkout 2.9.0" (after fetching tags). What is the p

Re: [Geoserver-users] Clone the Geoserver 2.9.0 in Github

2017-05-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Peter, why would you want to do this? You can get the same source with "git checkout 2.9.0" (after fetching tags). What is the point of extracting the source into a local git repository? All that will happen is that git will complain that you now have a huge number of changes. Either download

Re: [Geoserver-users] Clone the Geoserver 2.9.0 in Github

2017-05-05 Thread peter james
If I download the source code manually and copy the extracted folder manually into the github repository/folder on local system,can i build the source code with maven? or Will I get any error. On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > Peter, > > this question belongs on the geo

Re: [Geoserver-users] Clone the Geoserver 2.9.0 in Github

2017-05-02 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Peter, this question belongs on the geoserver-devel list. While is is possible to download the source zip file for 2.9.0, a git clone is much preferred if you are going to make changes. To make a new branch from the 2.9.0 tag: # clone the repository git clone git://github.com/geoserver/geoserv

Re: [Geoserver-users] Clone the Geoserver 2.9.0 in Github

2017-05-02 Thread Brad Hards
If you aren't familiar with git, and really do need 2.9.0, perhaps you might like to just download it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/files/GeoServer/2.9.0/ Brad -- Check out the vibrant tech communit

[Geoserver-users] Clone the Geoserver 2.9.0 in Github

2017-05-02 Thread peter james
Hi, If I try to run the below command in github,it will clone the latest geoserver version. *git clone git://github.com/geoserver/geoserver.git * If I tried to clone the particular version 2.9.0(we need this version only) by running below command,whethe