MapServer 3.3

[Brent Fraser]

Looks good so far.  I've compiled it on NT,
except for MapScript which will take some
head scratching (Perl on NT, what a concept!)

I'll be testing MapServer.exe over the next few
days, but so far I've gotten good looking GIFs
out of it!

Brent

----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Lime <steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 11:07 PM
Subject: MapServer 3.3


> Hi folks: An initial release of 3.3 is available
> at http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/dist/ms_3.3.tar.gz
>
>
> This is not what I'd like to consider the formal release. There are still
a few things to be ironed
> out and documentation will not be ready until
> early next week. Still, the code is stable enough
> to be test compiled on NT and other environments.
>
> 3.3 contains thousands of changes from 3.2. Many
> are subtle and were implemented to support MapScript, others are a bit
more major. In all only 2 keywords were depricated, actually removed,
> from the map file syntax- labeloverlap is no longer recognized and index
is now tileindex. Other than that old files should require little
modification.
>
> Again, don't make a switch to 3.3 for production work. I need sometime to
get docs online and to
> add the last couple features I had planned. For now I'd be happy to learn
than it builds ok and
> 3.2 mapfiles, with little modification, run fine.
>
> The MapServer test suite, 3.3 docs and a MapScript
> doc will be online in the next day or two.
>
> Steve
>