Terminology Cleanup - SCARY

Flavio Hendry flavio at TYDAC.CH
Tue Oct 2 23:20:46 PDT 2007


Hi Steve

I was reading the section about "Terminology Cleanup" (MS RFC 26) seeing
that some terms such as MINSCALE will be replaced by ugly terms like
MinScaleDenom ... Someone really being picky about terms there. As there
is no such thing as a scale on screen I'd suggest to call it
PseudoMinScaleDenom to be really finicky about that ;-) ...

What I however really hope for, is that the old and completely
understandable terms will be supported forever. I am not keen to go and
have to adopt hundreds and hundreds of MapFiles just because someone out
there is picky about terms. And I am sure lots of users out there agree
with me. 

So PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEE support the old terms forever as stated as option
in MS RFC 26. Should this become a new RFC? Upwards Compatibility Assurance?

Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards
Flavio Hendry

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