Forgot about ...ITEM parameters. Those are indeed gone. We did the best we could and 5.0 was the best place to drop parameters altogether. I suppose I could have figured a way to maintain mapfile level compatability for those but at the expense of the maintainability I was looking for in the first place. Since those where lightly used (relative to MINSCALE) away they went.
Like I said, while the ...Denom is *official* the old keywords will continue to be supported at the mapfile level. It pays to belong to mapserver-dev, although perhaps we could solicit comments more broadly on RFC's by cc'ing mapserver-users when they are introduced. Steve >>> Flavio Hendry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/04/07 12:50 AM >>> Hi Steve As for example LABELANGLEITEM and LABELSIZEITEM were thrown out in MS 5.0, we will have a some headache moving to 5.0 (go find all the files using in and change them all manually and this during production). Seeing the Scale issues headache was increasing. As said, we have hundreds of MapFiles around, and I find that backward compatibility is crucial. And btw, for non English speaking people "MinScaleDenom" will be far more confusing then "MinScale" (which is to me and to any client I ever met crystal clear). Denom sounds to us more as an after shave as something else (or was it Denim?) ... Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards Flavio Hendry ---------------------------------------------------------------- TYDAC Web-Site: http://www.tydac.ch TYDAC MapServer: http://www.mapserver.ch ---------------------------------------------------------------- ############ Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Kind Regards ############ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ############ TYDAC AG - http://www.tydac.ch #### #### Geographic Information Solutions #### #### Luternauweg 12 -- CH-3006 Bern ############ Tel +41 (0)31 368 0180 - Fax +41 (0)31 368 1860 ----------------------------------------------------------------
