Current state of work

[Martin Desruisseaux <ma...@geomatys.fr>]

Hello all

The basic geodetic classes recently committed implemented version 1 of 
"Well Known Text" in their 'toString()' and 'toWKT()' methods. I'm in 
the process of migrating them to version 2 of "Well Known Text". The 
reason why I wish to use WKT 2 before the release candidate is for 
preserving compatibility: if someone write code that depends on the WKT 
format, I wish to not break his code when he would migrate from SIS 0.4 
to 0.5. An other reason is that if a user asks for support on the 
mailing list, the WKT is one of the most useful piece of information 
(together with the stack trace) and the WKT 2 format provides more 
information than WKT 1 did.

I'm late in the process, but still hope to finish WKT 2 this week. Next 
task would be to retrofit the Shapefile reader with the data store API 
(I will post my proposal on this list before starting anything), then I 
would be ready to submit a release candidate.

     Martin