[Mapserver-dev] Modularizing mapserver

[Daniel Morissette]

Sean Gillies wrote:
> 
> Currently, every file is lumped under mapserver/ and every file
> is a build target that may or may not have an #ifdef bracketing
> its code.  Wouldn't it be better to handle conditional compilation
> of packages (such as PDF, iamgemap, SWF) in the makefile than in
> the source?
> 

Better? It depends on who you ask. Steve's approach to dealing with 
optional components in MapServer has been to always compile every file, 
and use #ifdefs to disable the code and provide stub functions for 
disabled components. That didn't seem natural for me at first either, 
but I got used to it, and I don't see any problem with that approach, so 
as usual I would say:"if it ain't broken don't touch it"... and vote 
against that change... unless someone can demonstrate that there are 
real issues with this approach of course.

Daniel
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