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

Tamas Szekeres szekerest at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 18:36:58 EST 2010


Um, wrong addressee, I wanted to post it to my collegue who's not signed on
the list....
Sorry  for the noise.

Tamas

2010/3/4 Tamas Szekeres <szekerest at gmail.com>

> BTW: here are the related threads I've recently come up with:
>
>
> http://n2.nabble.com/The-legendary-story-of-mapObj-zoomRectangle-a-cabaret-show-td4670377.html
>
> http://n2.nabble.com/isValidItem-is-not-aware-of-the-OGR-special-attributes-td4670588.html
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tamas
>
>
>
> 2010/3/3 Tamas Szekeres <szekerest at gmail.com>
>
>
>>
>> 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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