Updating the MapServer README...

[Steve Lime]

I'd call version 1 the standard header and all files will have that...

Steve

>>> On 2/1/2008 at 4:50 PM, in message
<f3b73b7d0802011450m4fd6a8c2r65e1021b7e92cfe0 at mail.gmail.com>, Tamas Szekeres
<szekerest at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 2008/2/1, Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us>:
>> Adding that standardized header is on my immediate "todo" list. Frank 
> provided instructions
>> last week (or so)... Most files do have that standard header already if 
> you're wondering what
>> it looks like.
>>
> 
> Hmmm... I can find quite some variations out there. Here are some examples:
> 
> 
> 
> version 1:
> 
> 
> /***************************************************************************
> ***
>  *
>  * Project:  MapServer
>  * Purpose:  Various template processing functions.
>  * Author:   Steve Lime and the MapServer team.
>  *
>  
> *****************************************************************************
> *
>  * Copyright (c) 1996-2005 Regents of the University of Minnesota.
>  *
>  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
>  * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
> "Software"),
>  * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
>  * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
>  * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
>  * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
>  *
>  * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included 
> in
>  * all copies of this Software or works derived from this Software.
>  *
>  * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
>  * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF 
> MERCHANTABILITY,
>  * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
>  * THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR 
> OTHER
>  * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
>  * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
>  * DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
>  
> ****************************************************************************/
> 
> 
> 
> version 2:
> 
> 
> /***************************************************************************
> ***
> * $Id: tile4ms.c 6373 2007-07-24 02:37:18Z dmorissette $
> *
> * tile4ms.mc
> *
> * Version 1.0
> * Author Herbie Freytag hfreytag at dlwc.nsw.gov.au 
> *
> * Create shapefile of rectangles from extents of several shapefiles (=tiles)
> * Create DBF with file names for shape tiles, in column LOCATION as required
> * by mapserv.
> * For use with Mapserv tiling capability.
> * Issues: resulting shape files do not display in ArcView.
> *
> * Copyright (c) 1996-2005 Regents of the University of Minnesota.
> *
> * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
> * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
> * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
> * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
> * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
> *
> * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
> * all copies of this Software or works derived from this Software.
> *
> * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
> * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF 
> MERCHANTABILITY,
> * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
> * THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
> * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
> * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
> * DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
> ****************************************************************************
> **
> *
> * This is a modified version of Herbie's program that works with MapServer's
> * shapelib and should be using the MapServer makefile.
> *
> */
> 
> 
> version 3:
> 
> /***************************************************************************
> ***
>  * $Id: pymodule.i 7205 2007-12-22 09:13:59Z unicoletti $
>  *
>  * Project:  MapServer
>  * Purpose:  Python-specific enhancements to MapScript
>  * Author:   Sean Gillies, sgillies at frii.com 
>  *
>  
> *****************************************************************************
> *
>  *
>  * Python-specific mapscript code has been moved into this
>  * SWIG interface file to improve the readibility of the main
>  * interface file.  The main mapscript.i file includes this
>  * file when SWIGPYTHON is defined (via 'swig -python ...').
>  *
>  
> *****************************************************************************
> /
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Tamas