[Users] GeoExt 1.0?

[Andreas Hocevar]

Hi Eric,

thanks for the clarification. Posting something similar was on my to-do 
this morning, and now I can mark this as done :-).

-Andreas.

Eric Lemoine wrote:
> On Friday, January 22, 2010, Christopher Schmidt
> <crschmidt at crschmidt.net> wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:02:53PM -0500, Yves Moisan wrote:
>>     
>>> Editing tools need to allow at least snapping IMO.  Otherwise they won't
>>> be used for "real" GIS/drawing work.  A personal wish I have is to be
>>> able to position a point or a vertex at specific coordinates, but I
>>> understand that may not be a requirement for a 1.0.  Snapping is though
>>> IMO.
>>>       
>> Perhaps I'm confused about what GeoExt was. I thought it was a framework
>> to create attractive mapping applications more simply... not a replacement
>> for any particular tool (ArcView, ArcMap, or otherwise).
>>     
>
> Yes, GeoExt is a (client-side) framework to create mapping apps, and I
> don't think there's desire to change that. We probably shouldn't talk
> about "tools"; "components" would be more appropriate I guess.
>
> I think Yves is just saying that he'd like that GeoExt provide
> high(er)-level components that would ease developing apps with editing
> functionality.
>
> As a side note: our goal with the user extensions (ux) is to provide
> high-level UI components targetting more specific user scenarios.
> These ux may be why the term "tool" came up; just a guess.
>
>   
>> In that case, in my opinion, both of these things are not requirements
>> for a '1.0' release; GeoExt, as it is, makes it easier to create
>> user-friendly mapping applications. Tools like editing, styling, etc. are
>> not neccesarily part of a 1.0 release.
>>     
>
> I agree. There are a couple of things we'd want to do before Release
> 1.0 though, like bringing some consistency in our APIs, and being able
> to publish per-release docs.
>
> Cheers,
>
>   


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