[mapserver-dev] Motion: rename shp2img to map2img

[Seth G]

+1

Only concern is that any debugging advice on mailing lists etc. will need to know if the user has MapServer < 8 or not. 
Maybe the symlink idea could be backported so users have map2img available in MapServer 7 releases?

Seth

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On Wed, Sep 15, 2021, at 9:41 AM, jbo-ads wrote:
> +1
> 
> I also thought of a transition period with a symlink or a duplicate (the 
> file is not that big). Moreover a warning at shp2img's launch may be 
> welcome (e.g. "shp2img is deprecated in favor of map2img and will be 
> phased out in next versions").
> 
> Jérome.
> 
> 
> Le 15/09/2021 à 01:21, Even Rouault a écrit :
> > I'm +1. shp2img/map2img usage is likely mostly as a debugging tool. And 
> > the change to adapt is trivial (or people can create a symlink)
> > 
> > A possibility if we worry about backward compatibility would be also to 
> > modify the CMake install target to create a symlink (probably only on Unix)
> > 
> > Le 15/09/2021 à 01:09, Steve Lime a écrit :
> >> I'm ambivalent... +0.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 5:46 PM Jeff McKenna 
> >> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Hi devs,
> >>
> >>     As discussed in the recent PSC meetings, I'd like to move forward
> >>     with
> >>     the renaming of the shp2img commandline utility to "map2img" (this
> >>     was
> >>     first discussed back on 2020-07-07) to be included for the
> >>     MapServer 8.0
> >>     release.  Although it is a minimal change in the source code, it has
> >>     impacts for the user documentation, packaging, and msautotest, so
> >>     therefore I've created an RFC to document this major change, RFC 136:
> >>     https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-136.html
> >>
> >>     I therefore motion to rename the shp2img utility to 'map2img'.
> >>
> >>     I'll start with a +1
> >>
> >>     -jeff
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>     -- 
> >>     Jeff McKenna
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