[mapserver-users] testing mapserver large files rendering improvements

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Paul,

I think this is the best option because it gives control to the package 
builders and anyone that is a power user.

I would also like to see msdebug report missing qix files. This is a 
valuable tuning tools for power users.

Thanks,
   -Steve

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> I have another "third way" option, which would be a compile-time
> directive (--with-auto-qix) so that packagers can make dummy-friendly
> builds if they so desire.
> 
> ??
> 
> P
> 
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Jeff McKenna <jeffmckenna at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My vote is for Paul's default qix creation option, by MapServer.  Let's make
>> life easy for those beginner Windows users.
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15-May-08, at 12:07 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>
>>> Daniel Morissette wrote:
>>>> Guillaume Sueur wrote:
>>>>>> In my mind, we should do the right thing by default, and give the
>>>>>> power users the option to opt out, rather than forcing everyone to
>>>>>> become a power user to achieve something as basic as indexed file
>>>>>> access.
>>>>> +1 for this approach
>>>>>
>>>> The right thing to do is not the same in everyone's eyes.
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> I'm also against mapserver automatically creating .qix files, for the
>>> reasons
>>> Daniel and others have given.
>>>
>>> I'd add that current shapefile update tools (including he mapscript
>>> shapefile
>>> writing code, Shapelib and OGR) do *not* update .qix files.  If secretly
>>> create a .qix file for a shapefile that is being periodically updated all
>>> hell is likely to break out.
>>>
>>> BTW, .qix files can be *relatively* large.  For a shapefile of points, the
>>> .qix can easily be bigger than the .shx file.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> --
>>>
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