[udig-devel] Re: [Geotools-devel] Google Summer Of Code

[Martin Desruisseaux <martin.desruisseaux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniele Romagnoli a écrit :
> I'm Daniele Romagnoli, the Summer Of Code student working on the 
> ImageIO-GDAL integration proposal, having Simone Giannecchini as my Mentor.

This very interresting project may bring an issue that I would like to point out. Our current 
Geotools directory structure left few room for other languages than Java. I'm partially responsible 
for this unfortunate situation since I asked for "not too deep" directory tree when the current 
structure was setle down in 2002 - at that time, I didn't imagined that Geotools would ever involve 
anything else than Java. We already see some consequences of that choice: for example no "natural" 
place where to put the Ant scripts for the "maven/javadoc" module. The "expr.jjt" file in the main 
module may be an other example. This issue may become more accute if for some reason we wish to host 
C/C++ code in the Geotools project for GDAL or Proj.4 bindings for example (I realize that GDAL 
bindings already exists, but if we use more C/C++ code in Geotools, there is also some chances that 
soon or later we meet the need for additional C/C++ code for particular cases). I'm also aware of a 
group of peoples who may be interrested to contribute to metadata in Geotools, and part of their 
contribution may be in the form of PHP scripts.

May proposal is to change the Geotools directory structure in order to comply to the Maven standard 
published there:

http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-standard-directory-layout.html

For the Geotools code base, this mean that the following changes would need to be performed for each 
module:

  * Java source code currently in 'src' directory would need to move to 'src/main/java' directory.
  * Test source code currently in 'test' directory would need to move to 'src/test/java' directory.
  * Resources currently bundled in the 'src' directory (together with Java sources) would need to
    move to their own 'src/main/resources' directory.

This change would not be performed immediately. We would probably need to merge all branches first. 
No date is scheduled; I'm only bringing this topic for discussion purpose. I openned a JIRA task for 
that:

    http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-887

If the PMC and contributors agree with this proposal, I can volunter for doing this task this fall 
(maybe in October). Actually it should not be a very long task to carry for the guy who performs the 
reorganisation. The most disturbing thing is that every contributors would have to reconfigure their 
IDE.

	Martin.