Re: [udig-dev] vecmath

[Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have gotten a bit of encouragement from Andrea that vecmath can be replaced. I have put vecmath as a subject for the foss4g code-sprint.

However I do not feel we can accomplish replacing vecmath during our incubation timeframe.  As such I will submit Java 3D to the technology-pmc list for discussion as a "exempt pre-req".

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So I would like a hand making this decision.

It looks from quick discussion on geotools-devel that replacing this dependency is possible, but doing so would put us in limbo without any ETA. Would need to patch geotools trunk, and then upgrade udig to use it.

It also goes against my initial plan of leaving the dependencies fixes, so we were not trying to review a moving target.

So I expect this is a good long term plan, and I should issues a separate request for a "pre-existing exemption" on Java 3D to the technology-pmc list. Same approach as the others, this is a formal java extension that we expect to be in the JRE.

Frank had some good ideas about alleviating the setup difficulty with respect to these java extensions, but that can be the subject for another email thread when he is ready.

Jody