[Mapserver-dev] Re: Comments on map rotation

[Daniel Morissette]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Sean Gillies wrote:
> 
>> This is not in any way a criticism of your work or philosophy -- I am  
>> just
>> trying to get some discussion going on what is the nature of the  
>> top-level
>> map object.  Did it just morph from a Map to a View?  Or has it been 
>> a  View all along?
> 

Does it really matter what we call it if it works and makes sense to 
most people?  Sounds like a purely academic discussion to me.

Of course I could be missing the boat since my priority is to make 
things work and not to build the perfect design.

> 
> I would be happy to discuss it over beer at the MUM.  On even more 
> important
> topics (such as brace styles, and lack of file headers) I think we 
> should work
> out policy with some appropriately democratic mechanism such as 
> foozball, arm
> wrestling or a bumper car rally!
> 

I'm in for all of the above!  :)

And since you mention coding style, that's something we should really 
work on. Compare the GDAL source to the MapServer source and you'll 
understand the benefits of a simple coding style (the GDAL coding style 
is very simple, about half a dozen rules, but it works).

Daniel
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