Directly in CVS? (Re: raster layer properties and mask patches)

[Bernhard Herzog]

Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:31:05PM -0500, Jonathan Coles wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, den 27.01.2005, 18:56 +0100 schrieb Bernhard Herzog:
>
>> > If we save it into the .thuban file, we have to support it in future
>> > versions of Thuban.  I don't want that to happen for settings that
>> > aren't really necessary.
>
> We could keep it in CVS for now 
> to see if other implementations will help
> and if people actually need it.

I think we need to distinguish between a) having this flag in the GUI
and b) actually storing it in the .thuban files.

Personally, I don't think we should have that flag in the first place,
but if enough people want it, why not?  It won't be much work to remove
it if it turns out nobody uses it.  BTW, besides you and Jonathan, who
does actually want it?

b) is a different matter. If it turns out the flag is actually used and
people really do expect it to be saved we could perhaps add that later,
but lets leave it out of the file format for now.  Adding it later is
easy, taking it out again is impossible.  File formats live forever.

> This is CVS HEAD, I do not think we decided on a gdal version yet.
> I go along with saying that support for other gdal versions is good
> to keep if the cost for keeping it are low enough.

I think it's fine to raise the requirement to 1.2.4 or 1.2.5 even.  This
is a development version after all, and the alpha channel support will
make raster image rendering better.

   Bernhard

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