Tom Brinkman wrote:
The GGL team proposes an extension model, very similar to what is used by GIL.
I'm not sure that the extensions proposal worked very well for GIL. I'm not sure why.
This is interesting. Perhaps GIL maintainers could share their opinion?
Probably it was too ambitious.
I've started to lurk around GIL extensions fairly recently, so I'm not able to judge.
Initially, just try encourage a small group of interested developers to work with you on extensions. When that number becomes too large, than start thinking about a more formalized system.
If people see that there are a couple of really cool extensions that were intergrated, it might just encourage others to add extensions as well.
Good points. Perhaps, in future, it would make sense to maintain two sets of extensions: - internal or built-in tools specific to various domains but mature enough to have them included as part of the library - external - sort of incubator, place for more exotic tools, experiments, etc. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org