Andrea do you have another suggested way to work on this then? So far a 
proposal is the only way we have to communicate. We are not going to start 
implementing with out a direction. 

-- 
Jody Garnett


On Tuesday, 9 August 2011 at 10:54 PM, Andrea Aime wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Walter Deane <[email protected] 
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > 
> > I have put up a new UML that reflects Andrea's naming changes and Jody's
> > request not to have a locking dependency.
> > 
> > http://imgur.com/83RdW.png
> 
> Still not good imho.
> VersioningFeature is similar to SimpleFeature, DecoratingFeature,
> ResultSetFeature,
> TestFeature and so on (all available in the code base).. except it's
> not a feature.
> It should be either VersioningFeatureStore or VersioningFeaturLocking, since
> it allows to modify the data contents.
> As a rule of thumb, in GeoTools you do "if(fs instanceof FeatureStore)" to 
> know
> if a object is also able to mutate the contents of the store. A
> rollback does that,
> so it should follow the same conventions imho.
> 
> The remaining main problem I see in the proposal is that you're trying to push
> out new interfaces that have no implementation in supported land.
> This is unprecedented and dangerous.
> 
> Look around and you'll see that interfaces in current use have landed
> in core only
> along implementations of them in the same commit.
> The few ones that did not are the classic dead bodies that we have around
> in the code, stuff that people added and then failed to complement with
> implementations.
> 
> Not saying that it's going to happen with this one as well, but why not follow
> a path that makes sure it cannot happen at all?
> With naming fixes I'll still vote -0 on the proposal (with the current naming
> my vote is still -1).
> 
> Cheers
> Andrea
> 
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