[mapguide-psc] MapGuide's 1st RFC!

[Andy Morsell]

I agree, it's probably not a big issue.  It depends on how much work it
would be on Bruce's end to support backwards compatibility.  If it would be
relatively easy, then may as well do it.  If it would require a large
effort, then the current console response to an incorrect parameter should
be sufficient for users to figure it out on their own. 


Andy 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Spencer [mailto:pspencer at dmsolutions.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:29 AM
To: psc at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapguide-psc] MapGuide's 1st RFC!

I am normally a big fan of backwards compatibility too, but I really don't
see this as a big issue.  Perhaps if the tool just spits out an appropriate
message if called with incorrect parameters?

Then again, windows users are most likely used to the / style of adding
parameters so perhaps that makes it worthwhile supporting both?

Paul

On 31-Oct-06, at 2:08 PM, Andy Morsell wrote:

> I agree with Frank in that keeping it backwards compatible with the 
> older command line parameters while in the future only documenting the 
> new ones would be the best.  There are many references, mostly in 
> archived messages in the mapguide-users mailing list, to the current 
> parameter syntax that new users are bound to run across (and try to 
> use) when doing research.
>
> Regarding the RFC format, that seems to work very well.
>
> Andy
>
> From: Bruce Dechant [mailto:bruce.dechant at autodesk.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:20 AM
> To: psc at mapguide.osgeo.org
> Subject: [mapguide-psc] MapGuide's 1st RFC!
>
> Hi All,
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> I wrote up a simple MapGuide RFC to give our process a trial run.
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> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/MG_RFC_1_-
> _Commandline_parameter_changes
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> Please have a look and post any feedback.
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> Thanks,
>
> Bruce
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>

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