[mapserver-dev] The legendary story of mapObj.zoomRectangle (a cabaret show)

[Tamas Szekeres]

BTW: here are the related threads I've recently come up with:

http://n2.nabble.com/The-legendary-story-of-mapObj-zoomRectangle-a-cabaret-show-td4670377.html
http://n2.nabble.com/isValidItem-is-not-aware-of-the-OGR-special-attributes-td4670588.html

Best regards,

Tamas



2010/3/3 Tamas Szekeres <szekerest at gmail.com>

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>
> 2010/3/3 Alan Boudreault <aboudreault at mapgears.com>
>
> Tamas,
>>
>> Someone also reported on IRC that problem (IIRC, 2-3 weeks ago). My change
>> was
>> a misinterpretation and shouldn't have been done. I had not understood why
>> this part of the code was different of the php similar function. As you
>> said
>> on IRC "treating maxy >= miny as a failure is semantically irregular", but
>> this commit changed the behavior of the function that exists for a long
>> time.
>> I would suggest to revert it and backport it in branch 5.6.
>>
>> Perhaps it would be a good opportunity to release 5.6.2 ? Are there enough
>> important fixes in the branch?
>>
>>
> Alan,
>
> If we accept the original version as the correct one (because of historical
> reasons) it would validate a new release of it's own. Otherwise the number
> of the people affected would be increasing as the time is passing by.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tamas
>
>
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