agg changes

[thomas bonfort]

daniel,

maybe a solution could be to mark those features as deprecated in the
doc, and that they will not be maintained anymore and removed in a
future (which one?) release.

thomas

On 8/30/07, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> 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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