Elminating masktype for raster images and going for 1.2.1

[Didrik Pinte]

On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 00:19 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Thinking about this a bit, I think we should eliminate the
> choice of masktypes for raster layers.
> And I have started doing the first changes in SVN
> right away.
> 
> Rational: We can always do alpha with wx>=2.6.
> The choice of masktypes and saving it in a .thuban file was
> only possible with thuban-1.1.x series and other development versions.
> Alpha handling will always do what the user wants, so we can actually simplify
> the code here. And simplicity if possible is always good. :)
> The user base of Thuban 1.2.0 is not that big and I really cannot
> think of an usage case for mask and bitmap is actually wanted.
> 
> Objections?


None ;-) 


> I'd rather go sooner for Thuban 1.2.1 release as there have been
> a few significant problems fixed.
> Still I would want to at least add a thuban-1.2.dtd without the maptype
> attribute, some compatibility code loading the old stuff.
> I am wondering how much of the move the unicode we should do
> or if at all we should just integrate Bram's new pyshapelib.

I'm pushing for Bram's code integration. I seems to work fine with the
different tests I've made (nothing really official but it works fine). 

Didrik
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