[mapserver-dev] Dropping Version Output?

[Daniel Morissette]

I have always found it very handy, it's the first thing I look at when 
asked to troubleshoot someone's server. Perhaps the supported modules 
make less sense today since the list is not complete, but I'd vote to 
keep at least the MapServer signature and version number. It is common 
practice for client/server software to expose their identity and version 
number, think of the Apache sevrer headers, and the browser's user-agent 
strings, even good old FTP and SMTP used to do it as well.  Is there a 
reason to remove it?



On 2022-02-15 20:48, Steve Lime wrote:
> What do folks think about dropping the version output from MapServer? 
> That is, output like:
> 
> <!-- MapServer version 7.6.4 OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG SUPPORTS=PROJ 
> SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=CAIRO SUPPORTS=ICONV 
> SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER 
> SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=GEOS SUPPORTS=POINT_Z_M SUPPORTS=PBF 
> INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE -->
> 
> I'm not sure that advertising version and supported components makes 
> sense anymore. Might be able to make it tunable via the config file but 
> I'm not sure that's even necessary.
> 
> --Steve
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