[geomoose-psc] GeoMoose 2.x retirement

[TC Haddad]

+1
I've asked around, and this idea doesn't seem to be causing any heartburn.

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 7:45 AM Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:

> +1
>
> This will be ~1.5 years after the first release of 3.0.
>
> Eli
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 5:50 PM Dan Little <theduckylittle at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > +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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