Hi Jeff,
It should be soon, hopefully in the next couple of weeks.
Cheers,
Don
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Howie, Jeffrey A.
<Jeffrey.Howie_at_gd-ais.com> wrote:
> Any idea when v5 will be non-beta?
>
> -Jeff
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Dietrick [mailto:dfdietrick_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 8:15 AM
> To: Howie, Jeffrey A.
> Cc: openmap-users_at_bbn.com
> Subject: Re: [OpenMap Users] Questions about latest version of OpenMap
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Howie, Jeffrey A.
> <Jeffrey.Howie_at_gd-ais.com> wrote:
>> Hello -
>>
>> I'm using the latest release of OpenMap (v4.6.5) and am trying to upgrade to
>> v5 beta, and have a few questions:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1) When is v5 going to be released and no longer considered beta? I'm
>> attempting to figure out if doing the upgrade will fit into my project
>> schedule.
>
> I know I've been saying pretty soon for a while now, but very soon.
> The code base won't change except for a couple of bug fixes, at this
> time it's an administrative holdup.
>
>> 2) Where can I find the list of new features/changes since the prior
>> released version?
>>
>
> This is one of the things that is holding it up, I'm still compiling
> the list of changes, which will be posted in the CHANGELOG in the
> package.
>
>
>> 3) I built v5 beta and dropped the resulting jar file into my project
>> only to see hundreds of compile errors. Many of the
>> features/methods/variables I've been using have changed or were removed.
>> Where do I find the documentation on mapping the usage of the previous
>> version to v5?
>>
>
> The main changes that affect backward compatibility are:
>
> - com.bbn.openmap.LatLonPoint has been movied to
> com.bbn.openmap.proj.coords.LatLonPoint
> - LatLonPoint now extends Point2D, and getX(), getY() are used to
> retrieve double precision lat/lon values
> - LatLonPoint can't be instantiated directly, you have to use
> LatLonPoint.Double() or LatLonPoint.Float, just like Point2D.
> - The Projection classes are now based on Point2D objects instead of
> Point and LatLonPoint. Using generics, any projection extending from
> GeoProj returns LatLonPoints as an extension of Point2D.
>
> Your IDE should be able to fix the import path of LatLonPoint for you,
> and that should greatly reduce the amount of time it takes you to
> upgrade to OM5. There will be a short document in the package
> describing the most common changes I had to make to the OpenMap layers
> for these changes - it was the same thing over and over, and I made
> those changes in a couple of hours.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Don
>
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