MapServer 5.0 WMS, requiring styles...

[Frank Warmerdam]

Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
> 
> I can understand the issues which can evolve from folks used to pre-5.0
> behaviour w.r.t. styles.
> 
> At the same time, any WMS client will run into a service exception when not
> passing styles to ANY WMS SERVER, not just MapServer 5.0 WMS.
> 
> Ticket 1088 documents the rationale, as well as supporting documentation and
> notes in MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT.

Tom,

http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/1088 is quite a long ticket.  I've
read through the whole thing and I don't see anything that looks like a
justification other than "The spec says they're required."  That doesn't
seem like much of a justification to me.

Could you perhaps re-pose the justification?

At this point I still think we should be forgiving.

Best regards,
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