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Hi,<BR>
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A recent post by Victor outlined the roadmap for Sextante.<BR>
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In it he indicated he intended to make Sextante into a library and allow various developers to assimilate this library into their projects, rather than maintain a plug-in system which requires constant rejigging to ensure the bindings work.<BR>
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Surprisingly, despite Victor pointing everyone to OADE 2010, the developers of gvSIG (core project) were not goaded into a response.<BR>
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So I am asking... What is the position of the gvSIG Developers regarding Sextante (you have had enough time to talk about this)? Are you planning to incorporate the upcoming library into gvSIG or will you let this plug-in languish? I suppose the question is also relevant for the next version of OADE.<BR>
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I think this is an important question as Sextante elevates gvSIG into a product that can be used in a production environment; without it gvSIG lacks important basic functionality.<BR>
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And at a personal level, I am in the final stages of preparing my templates for my how-to manuals -- should I be writing my documentation for OADE 2010 (which incorporates Sextante) or gvSIG+Sextante or if the use of Sextante is uncertain, other upcoming packages? I am also on record stating that gvSIG+Sextante is the first FOSS GIS that I could use in a production environment. There is also an upcoming paper in OSGeo Journal to that elk. So, will these statements hold true in the future or will the gvSIG product fall back to just the core modules?<BR>
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Cheers Simon<BR>
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Simon Cropper <BR>
Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd<BR>
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