agg changes

[Daniel Morissette]

Paul,

Unfortunately at a few days from the release I think it's too late to 
strip out stuff. Your reasoning makes sense, but in the interest of 
getting a release out I have to say "no more changes in 5.0".

Daniel


Paul Spencer wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> I'd like to suggest defering cartographic enhancements (by which I mean 
> additional keywords in the map file to specify more advanced 
> cartographic options) until post 5.0.  I think, since you are moving 
> from 4.x to 5.x and *can* make some changes that are not necessarily 
> backwards compatible, that you should consider removing things from the 
> mapfile at this point that don't work or won't be supported in order to 
> establish a minimum baseline which the 5.x series can build on by adding 
> new features without having to make an incompatible change in the next 
> version.  Essentially, I am advocating stripping out as much as 
> possible/practical, and then adding new stuff post 5.0.
> 
> Looking forward to 5.2, I think it would be really beneficial to start a 
> dialog with the user community on cartographic needs and try to 
> establish a set of requirements that can be built towards in the 5.x 
> series.  I know that MapGuide has implemented point and line support for 
> a massive USGS cartographic standard and has some very impressive demos 
> of the new cartography.  There is also a large document describing the 
> cartographic needs of the Canadian national dataset folks.  There are 
> probably other 'standards' out there too.
> 
> AGG has given mapserver an excellent foundation to build on for premium 
> cartography, and I think it would be a mistake to leave stuff in 
> mapserver 5.0 that we may regret post 5.0.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul
> 
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