[mapserver-dev] The legendary story of mapObj.zoomRectangle (a cabaret show)

[Tamas Szekeres]

2010/3/3 Alan Boudreault <aboudreault at mapgears.com>

> Tamas,
>
> Someone also reported on IRC that problem (IIRC, 2-3 weeks ago). My change
> was
> a misinterpretation and shouldn't have been done. I had not understood why
> this part of the code was different of the php similar function. As you
> said
> on IRC "treating maxy >= miny as a failure is semantically irregular", but
> this commit changed the behavior of the function that exists for a long
> time.
> I would suggest to revert it and backport it in branch 5.6.
>
> Perhaps it would be a good opportunity to release 5.6.2 ? Are there enough
> important fixes in the branch?
>
>
Alan,

If we accept the original version as the correct one (because of historical
reasons) it would validate a new release of it's own. Otherwise the number
of the people affected would be increasing as the time is passing by.

Best regards,

Tamas
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