[mapserver-users] Heads-up: start removing all references to DUMP in your mapfiles now...

[Jeff McKenna]

Hello everyone!

This is a big heads-up, that the upcoming 8.0 release (and the current 
MapServer source code if you compile from the GitHub [unreleased] source 
as of today) will cause an error to be thrown:

   loadLayer(): Unknown identifier.  Parsing error near (DUMP): line xxx

So it would be smart now to review all of your mapfiles to make sure 
that any references to DUMP in your layers are commented or removed. 
(DUMP was first deprecated back in the 6.0 release, and using LAYER 
METADATA is required instead)

This is no small task, as a manager of MapServer services I realize, as 
today I upgraded and suddenly all of my OGC services and mapfiles broke 
(80+ mapfiles in MS4W, plus all of the live demos, I must have a few 
hundred mapfiles to update and check, at least).  I have also begun to 
reach out to other various projects/communities today that use 
MapServer, so they can start adapting right away; please do the same if 
you can.

Thanks all!

-jeff


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Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/