Terminology Cleanup - SCARY

[Steve Lime]

Scale does seem to be a FAQ around here and I've experienced confused users
in classes and workshops I've taught. So while I (and others) are very used to
the mapserver-ish way of doing things it can be a struggle for new folks. Hence
the change.

That said, there is mapfile-level backwards compatibility with any of the changes
in that RFC and there are no plans to stop recognizing those keywords in the
future. I would think for that to happen there would have to be other significant
changes that would absolutely break things and I don't see that happening. We
tried to get anything with the potential to cause heartburn into the 5.0 release.

Steve

>>> On 10/3/2007 at 1:20 AM, in message
<WorldClient-F200710030820.AA20460308 at tydac.ch>, Flavio Hendry
<flavio at TYDAC.CH> wrote:
> 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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