[mapserver-dev] 6.2 release notes/announcement

[Daniel Morissette]

Okay, so the text should be changed to make it more clear that the label 
member was removed, e.g.


"... The label member was removed from the classObj and three new 
methods were added to the classObj in MapScript to work with labels 
instead: getLabel, addLabel, removeLabel. Existing scripts need to be 
updated or risk silent failures as SWIG MapScript (at least in python) 
does not complain on invalid attempts to access to the (non-existent) 
label member of the classObj."


Can you please make this change Thomas or Alan as I'm not sure where it 
should be committed.

Daniel


On 12-11-14 9:06 AM, Alan Boudreault wrote:
> I confirm yes. There is no more label property in the classObj. Users
> have to explicitly use addLabel, getLabel and setLabel.
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
>
> On 12-11-14 08:56 AM, thomas bonfort wrote:
>> Daniel,
>> I have added your suggestions to the repo, they should appear shortly.
>> I'll let Alan or Alexandre amend if needed, but will be announcing the
>> release on our mailing lists in the coming hour anyways.
>>
>> cheers,
>> thomas
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Daniel Morissette
>> <dmorissette at mapgears.com <mailto:dmorissette at mapgears.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     there is at least one incompatibility that has been encountered with
>>     MapScript vs the support for multiple label objects in a class. In
>>     6.0 and older, label was an immutable member of the class object,
>>     and a single label was always allocated as part of the classObj. In
>>     6.2, there is no label allocated in the class object by default and
>>     your MapScript code (python, etc.) has to create new label objects
>>     and add them to the class object. Three new methods were added to
>>     the classObj in MapScript to handle this: getLabel, addLabel,
>>     removeLabel. Existing scripts need to be updated or risk silent
>>     failures as SWIG MapScript (at least in python) does not complain on
>>     invalid access to the label member of the classObj.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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