[Mapserver-dev] include directive for mapfiles

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

Hi,

During a spirited conversation with Frank and Dave last night, I was
encouraged to send a post w.r.t. this subject, so here goes:

For those of us running MapServer with multiple datasets, definitions,
etc., it would be nice to be able to 'compartmentalize' mapfile chunks
which other mapfiles can refer to.

I'd be interested in hearing others' thoughts of defining a new mapfile
object called 'INCLUDE', which does just that, include contents of
another mapfile, i.e.:

INCLUDE 'roads.map'

Comments?

Thanks

..Tom