MS RFC: Layer Plug-in Architecture

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 9/8/05, Jani Averbach <javerbach at extendthereach.com> wrote:
>  i) It should be possible generate on the fly layers, existing
>     mapscripts are doing this.

Jani,

Generating on-the-fly layers is quite important!
 
> To get this really working and to prevent bugs, we should not let
> users to edit directly layer.connectiontype, so it should be removed
> or make read-only from scripting interface.

I think it would be reasonably to require update of the connection
type via a function instead of direct manipulation even though this
might result in some disruption to existing mapscript applications. 

Best regards,
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