Many structure members unnecessarily exposed to SWIG mapscript

[sgillies@…]

While documenting the SWIG mapscript I am realizing that there are many
structure members unnecessarily exposed to mapscript.

For example, imageObj.size ... I can't even find what this is used for.
Or outputFormatObj.refcount ... nobody should be messing with this.
There are more that I don't have the time to list.

What if we were to make structure members invisible to mapscript by
default, or at least immutable by default?  And require developers to
turn them on explicitly?

[sdlime]

I don't know that we can trust non-SWIG developers. I think this is best handled
by a very small group of people. We just need to train everyone to alert you and
I when new parameters are added. Either that or this becomes an exercise before
each release to get map.h in order. The 4.2 release (DMS would like to have one
in a couple of weeks) would be our first shot at it.

Steve

[sdlime]

Sean: I've added a MapScript-SWIG product, leaving MapScript itself for cross
PHP/Swig issues. I'm the owner at the moment but you could take it if you wanted to.

Steve

[sgillies@…]

Sure, you could make me the owner of the mapscript-SWIG component.

Is it possible to get this page

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/describecomponents.cgi?product=MapServer

to link back to the Wiki?  So each component would have a home page of
sorts?

[sgillies@…]

I'm going to close this down.  It's more of a continuing issue that
a specific bug.  Will add to the wiki.