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

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

Hi,

One final thought here :) would it be easier to revert to making STYLES
an optional parameters rather than introduce a new user directive, given
that STYLES= will be optional in the future?

..Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Developers List 
> [mailto:MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
> Sent: 02 November, 2007 10:22 AM
> To: MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-DEV] MS-RFC-35 - Solving the WMS 
> STYLES parameter issue
> 
> MapServer Dev's,
> 
> I have updated MS-RFC-35
> (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-35) 
> based on what I proposed in the exchange we had on the 
> initial RFC draft from Frank a little while ago and which 
> seemed to be an acceptable compromise:
> 
> "I'd be more in favor of calling the options "pedantic" (with 
> its negative connotation) and "permissive", with permissive 
> being the default, and for the time being stating in the RFC 
> that STYLES is the only parameter that changes behavior in 
> permissive mode... and that adding more exceptions in the 
> permissive mode should not be taken lightly as this 
> encourages misuse of the specs and bloats the code with 
> unnecessary exceptions."
> 
> 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.
> 
> Daniel
> --
> Daniel Morissette
> http://www.mapgears.com/
>