MS-RFC-35 - Solving the WMS STYLES parameter issue

[Daniel Morissette]

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 
> Can you please review the RFC and comment and/or tell us if the new 
> approach sounds acceptable to you?
> 
> If we can have consensus on this issue then we could vote to adopt the 
> RFC, implement the fix and try to release 5.0.1 in the next week or so.
> 

Forwarding a copy of Frank's comments sent to the -users list:

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> I have reviewed your updates, and I've made one more small change, removing
> the "quick and dirty" part.  Permissive mode should be seen as a mechanism to
> get the widest possible interoperability with clients (even slightly broken
> clients), rather than as a quick and dirty approach.
> 
> The other 5.0.1 issue that I think is critical is:
> 
>   http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2373
> 
> That is, to make sure we don't release 5.0.1 with a non-portable mapparser.c
> by accident.  It seems that most of the other pending 5.0.1 milestone bugs
> could be easily put off to 5.0.2 in the interest of getting 5.0.1 out the
> door within a week or two.