[mapserver-dev] Motion: rename shp2img to map2img

thomas bonfort thomas.bonfort at gmail.com
Wed Sep 15 08:47:10 PDT 2021


-0

shp2img is well known and documented, and probably used in some
scripted workflows. Renaming it will break docs, scripts, support
emails and tickets, for no particular gain aside from scratching a
naming itch.

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thomas

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 4:36 PM Daniel Morissette
<dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
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> +0
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> Daniel
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> On 2021-09-14 18:46, Jeff McKenna 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
> >
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> >
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