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<div class="">On Oct 15, 2018, at 7:33 PM, Jim Klassen <<a href="mailto:klassen.js@gmail.com" class="">klassen.js@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">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
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What say ye?<br class="">
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Draft announcement:<br class="">
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GeoMoose 2.x is getting long in the tooth and plans to retire in April 2019.<br class="">
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Due to GeoMoose 2.x requiring now very old versions of it dependences it<br class="">
is becoming increasingly difficult to support. As such, the GeoMoose<br class="">
team is announcing retirement for the GeoMoose 2.x series as April 2019.<br class="">
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This doesn't mean your older GeoMoose installations will suddenly stop<br class="">
working. However, the GeoMoose 2.9 demo (on<br class="">
<a href="https://demo.geomoose.org/2.9" class="">https://demo.geomoose.org/2.9</a>) will be shutdown and the development team<br class="">
won't have ready access to develop and test changes to the 2.x series. <br class="">
As such, the GeoMoose team recommends upgrading to GeoMoose 3.x.<br class="">
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Details:<br class="">
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GeoMoose 2.x requires old versions of Dojo (1.6) and OpenLayers (2.13). <br class="">
Neither of these libraries are currently under development or supported<br class="">
upstream. Updating to current versions of these libraries requires<br class="">
major reworking of the GeoMoose 2.x code. (In fact, this is what<br class="">
prompted the development of the GeoMoose 3.x series).<br class="">
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The bigger problem is that PHP services shipped with GeoMoose 2.x<br class="">
require PHP 5 and PHP MapScript. These don't exist in recent Linux<br class="">
distributions (e.g. Debian Stretch/Ubuntu 16.04 and newer). The April<br class="">
2019 date is set to coincide with Ubuntu 14.04 EOL.<br class="">
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