[mapserver-dev] MS RFC 133: Mapfile Syntax Cleanup

[Steve Lime]

I don't recall any keyword removals specifically. Should have to touch:

   - maplexer.l to remove keywords from the grammar
   - mapfile.c/mapfile.h to remove read/write cases and symbols
   - mapserver.h to remove structure members

Updating the maplexer.l effectively stops support, the rest is just
cleanup. I'll commit to taking a run through all of these in the next day
or so. It's a long list...

--Steve

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 3:06 PM Seth G <sethg at geographika.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've got round to a draft RFC for cleaning up deprecated and legacy
> Mapfile keywords, based on current docs and going through all the allowed
> syntax as part of mappyfile development and ongoing MapScript docs updates.
>
> https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-133.html
>
> It might be too early to vote on the RFC without some discussion about
> which keywords should be removed.
>
> In terms of updates any keyword removal would be a separate pull request.
> The changes to mapfile.c seem fine (and the msautotest Mapfiles), but I've
> never used the lexer/parser/Bison process. Are there any sample commits
> when a Mapfile keyword has been removed previously?
>
> Thoughts/comments welcome,
>
> Seth
>
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