[mkgmap-dev] option --mdr7-del: change or add new option?

Mon Jan 17 15:13:50 GMT 2022

Hi Gerd,

My suggestion was simply that it was more logical to remove them from
anywhere, I don't actually use the option.
I would be in favour of changing the existing option unless anyone states
they specifically need to only remove the words from the end of the label.
I would not be in favour of adding a new option unless there are users that
need both implementations (which I think is unlikely).

The removal of words from anywhere would also give better results in the
case where a number of words are added to the label, but one or more of the
words has inadvertently been missed from the --mdr7-del option.

Cheers,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerd Petermann [mailto:GPetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com] 
Sent: 17 January 2022 07:58
To: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
Subject: [mkgmap-dev] option --mdr7-del: change or add new option?

Hi all,

the current implementation only removes words from the right.
Felix and Mike both suggested to change that so that the listed words are
removed anywhere,
and I think Arndt's Style would also benefit.

Should I simply change the implementation and documentation 
or is backward compatibility important? 
If we want to be backward compatible we need a new option.
This could be something like --mdr7-delx or --mdr7-del-all

Gerd