[geomoose-psc] GeoMoose 2.x retirement

[Dan Little]

+1.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 19:33 Jim Klassen <klassen.js at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it is time to officially retire support for the GeoMoose 2.x
> series.  To that end, I would like to notify our users (ahead of time) by
> making an announcement on geomoose-users, and adding appropriate news
> items/noting the status on appropriate places on the GeoMoose website.
>
> What say ye?
>
>
> Draft announcement:
>
> ============================================
>
> GeoMoose 2.x is getting long in the tooth and plans to retire in April
> 2019.
>
> Summary:
>
> Due to GeoMoose 2.x requiring now very old versions of it dependences it
> is becoming increasingly difficult to support.  As such, the GeoMoose
> team is announcing retirement for the GeoMoose 2.x series as April 2019.
>
> This doesn't mean your older GeoMoose installations will suddenly stop
> working.  However, the GeoMoose 2.9 demo (on
> https://demo.geomoose.org/2.9) will be shutdown and the development team
> won't have ready access to develop and test changes to the 2.x series.
> As such, the GeoMoose team recommends upgrading to GeoMoose 3.x.
>
>
> Details:
>
> GeoMoose 2.x requires old versions of Dojo (1.6) and OpenLayers (2.13).
> Neither of these libraries are currently under development or supported
> upstream.  Updating to current versions of these libraries requires
> major reworking of the GeoMoose 2.x code.  (In fact, this is what
> prompted the development of the GeoMoose 3.x series).
>
> The bigger problem is that PHP services shipped with GeoMoose 2.x
> require PHP 5 and PHP MapScript.  These don't exist in recent Linux
> distributions (e.g. Debian Stretch/Ubuntu 16.04 and newer).  The April
> 2019 date is set to coincide with Ubuntu 14.04 EOL.
>
> ============================================
>
>
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