Deprecate MapFish widgets, remove lib

[adube]

Tasks

• Deprecate the following widgets :
  • MapFishLayerTree
  • MapFishRecenter

• Remove MapFish lib from externals

• Adjust all samples (remove lib, replace/remove the above widgets)

• Don't use MapFish build anymore, but GeoExt one instead

Required tasks before doing this one

• #169
• a widget to replace the MapFishRecenter

[adube]

Currently, all vector layers are created with the "mapfish.Protocol.MapFish" as protocol in the Map widget. We need to find a replacement for that as well.

[etdube]

Looks like OpenLayers.Protocol.HTTP could be a direct replacement.

[adube]

We used to use that one, but as soon as we integrated the editing widgets, we needed to switch to the mapfish protocol. I haven't looked or tried it yet, but we need to keep this in mind.

[adube]

r949, r950 and r951, featuring :

• externals removed :
  • mapfish-trunk
  • openlayers-trunk
  • geoext-core
  • geoext-ux
• externals added :
  • mapfish-client-trunk (it includes MapFish, OpenLayers, GeoExt and GeoExt.ux, all trunk)
• samples/config.php adjusted to point to the new libraries

A fresh checkout of the repository with all its externals weights :

• (before) : 1.8G
• (now) : 617M

[adube]

I was wrong about one point. A fresh checkout of the new repository is : 393M.

[adube]

And also about the weight of a fresh geoprisma checkout : was 1000M at r948. It must have been 1.8G because of svn local history. So that's 607M of useless stuff removed in the end.

[adube]

Guys, forget everything about the sizes again. I just found out what had been messing me up.

On my Linux machine, my /home directory is encrypted, making every files in it bigger than they normally are. My GeoPrisma trunk is in /home. When I tested the sizes, I checked out a new version in /tmp since I was to get rid of it after, so the comparisons were wrong. The svn history didn't make that much of a difference either.

Here are the final and true test results (I swear they're okay this time) :

• (r948) : 1000M
• (r951) : 384M

Sorry for the noise.

[yvesm]

Build scripts aren't quite working yet; should clear that tomorrow

[yvesm]

Build scripts are OK now except for "GeoExtux_shortcutcombo" being empty

[adube]

Widget deprecation will be covered by #309 instead. The part about removing the huge mapfish library being done, I'm closing this ticket as "fixed" for this task only.