<div dir="ltr">Hey Mark, <div><br></div><div>Let me see if I can get through all your questions with some clarity:</div><div><br></div><div>1. GeoMOOSE 3.0 release date: There is not a *concrete* release date for the first official version. I would expect sometime this summer. We are submitting both a workshop and presentation abstract for FOSS4G. I, personally, would like us to have an official non-beta release by then. That said, we are looking at releasing a demo/beta in the next couple of weeks that should give folks a solid idea of what to expect in the next version.</div><div><br></div><div>You may even want to wait until the first 3.0.x or 3.1 releases if you're not feeling particularly bleeding edge.</div><div><br></div><div>2. The reason GeoMOOSE 3.0 is a 3.0 and not a 2.10 is because we are breaking things. 3.0 is going to be a departure from the 2.X series in a number of ways; notably, we are no longer going to be dependent on PHP. If you are moving from 2.2 to 2.9 then to 3.0 there will be some duplication of effort. Specifically concerning any custom services you may have written. Instead of using PHP to launder spatial data, 3.0 is using more client-side templates and WFS queries in order to perform the same tasks.</div><div><br></div><div>PHP can still be used for custom services but will not be used by the core services that come with GeoMoose.</div><div><br></div><div>3. I won't lie, I have not looked at the 2.2-vintage of the code for a very long time. I'm not even sure if that change number is in GitHub and I'm pretty confident that it's a version released before we adopted strict semantic versioning. As such I know there are minor incompatibilities between 2.2 and 2.9. 2.9 is running with MapServer 7, I believe the MapServer 6.4 stuff will run with 2.2. There are a ton of modernizations between 2.2 and 2.9 and you'll have a level of effort in order to make the upgrade.</div><div><br></div><div>Major note from Jim: My experience is MapServer 6.4 and MapServer 7 are generally compatible on the mapfile level. My experience is while 7 adds some stuff and removes some long deprecated stuff, a reasonably modern and reasonably simple mapfile will work in both. I have no idea if there are PHP issues. If Jeff has GeoMoose 2.9.2 working with MapServer 7 then 2.9.2 works with MaoServee 6.4 and MapServer 7. (I checked out the latest ms4w as a test, but never bothered to look at what MapServer it came with).</div><div><br></div><div>One last note on 3.0 vs 2.X (particularly older 2.Xes): 3.0 is designed for *modern* browsers. We are not even going to pretend to support IE less than 10. Older versions of Firefox will not even be particularly useful. Testing is being done on FF (latest), Chrome (latest), IE11, and Edge. So, if you're really looking to support old, unsupported configurations like IE9 then you may need to stay on the 2.X series. We are still responding to bug reports on 2.X and I expect we'll need to continue to respond for another couple of years past the 3.0 release date. (Of course, if we have more funding for 3.0 then our efforts will go into that vein of the software.)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Mark Volz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MarkVolz@co.lyon.mn.us" target="_blank">MarkVolz@co.lyon.mn.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have some questions regarding the compatibility of older versions of GeoMOOSE and ms4w 3.2.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">First, is there an expected timeframe for GeoMOOSE 3.0 to be released?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Second, if I update my application to GeoMOOSE 2.9, then will updating the application to GeoMOOSE 3.0 be easy or difficult?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Third, if I update my .map files to work with Mapserver 7, then will GeoMOOSE 2.2 run on ms4w 3.2, or are there incompatibilities with the php scripts? Or will it just be easier to restart with GeoMOOSE 2.9 and then upgrade to GeoMOOSE
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank You!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Sincerely,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1f497d">Mark Volz</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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