Jan Hartmann wrote:
On 4-2-2010 12:04, tommasodb wrote:
The trick was SYMBOL SIMPLE, which is not really documented on the
official docu (http://mapserver.org/mapfile/symbol.html):
/lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Neither is DATARANGE and friends, at least not in the official MapFile
reference. You can find it it http://mapserver.org/input/raster.html,
but shouldn't these keywords be included in the MapFile section too?
Hi Jan,
Regarding the DATARANGE documentation ...
I do not remember the full discussion that we had on thess keywords at
the time, but I believe that they were considered "experimental" and
subject to change or removal.
The issue for the PSC is that sometimes code is in the trunk and gets
released, but we have not agreed on the RFC and the design of the code
and features. We do not want a bunch of users jumping on some feature
that is not ready for prime-time only to cause them pain later when we
have to change it.
I think that there might be a case for documenting stuff like this and
labeling it as "experimental" and therefore subject to change or
removal. I think that this would have value in:
1) giving it more visibility which would lead to more input from users
2) providing better overall documentation
3) alerting users to its state as "experimental" which does not happen now
I've cc'd the dev list on this to start this particular discussion there.
Best regards,
-Steve W
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